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Ajaz Firdous2023-06-15T11:19:02-04:00June 15, 2023|
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MILTON – The most extraordinary, difficult, rewarding, and frustrating thing he’s ever experienced is how co-owner Marvin Katz described Tall Dark Stranger’s three-year-old campaign where he won 11 times and earned over $1.4 million dollars in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of those 11 wins was his 2020 Pepsi North America Cup victory.
Ajaz Firdous2023-06-13T22:05:22-04:00June 13, 2023|
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MILTON, June 13, 2023 – Baroness Hill cemented her status as a filly to watch in the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) this season with an impressive gate to wire victory in the first of two $101,300 OSS Gold divisions for three-year-old trotting fillies tonight at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Doug McNair took the Chantal Mitchell trainee
Ajaz Firdous2023-06-13T10:10:18-04:00June 13, 2023|
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TORONTO - In May of 2016 Jonathan Drury drove Betting Line to a runner-up finish in his seasonal debut at Woodbine Mohawk Park. It was against conditioned company, and a standard early season tune-up for a sophomore pointed at major summer stakes. Afterwards, Drury told trainer Casie Coleman that he was upset because he was
Ajaz Firdous2023-06-12T11:29:36-04:00June 12, 2023|
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TORONTO – He’s big, he’s strong, and he has got it going on. Ken Middleton’s famous call of Somebeachsomewhere winning the Pepsi North America Cup helped cement the 2008 edition as one of the all-time great moments in Canadian harness racing. It was the first time an undefeated horse won the Pepsi North America Cup
Ajaz Firdous2023-06-09T09:39:31-04:00June 9, 2023|
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2023 is the 40th Pepsi North America Cup, so Ontario Racing is looking back at the five times an Ontario Sired horse won Canada’s biggest harness race. This is the first of those stories. TORONTO – My World Champion. Those are the words Brad Fritz – caretaker of Apaches Fame and son of the late William
Ajaz Firdous2023-06-07T13:39:35-04:00June 7, 2023|
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MILTON - Intense battles are guaranteed for this Saturday’s Pepsi North America Cup eliminations at Woodbine Mohawk Park and there will be four Ontario Sired competitors across the four divisions. Each $50,000 elimination this Saturday will feature just two guaranteed spots for the $1 million race. The top-two finishers from each elimination, plus two third-place
Ajaz Firdous2023-06-05T09:37:45-04:00June 3, 2023|
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MILTON, Ontario Sires Stakes superstar, Stockade Seelster, captured his $75,000 division of the Somebeachsomewhere stakes on Saturday at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The Somebeachsomewhere served as a preview of next week’s highly anticipated Pepsi North America Cup eliminations. The son of State Treasurer prevailed in the third and final division. Moment Is Here (All Bets Off)
Ajaz Firdous2023-05-31T16:58:25-04:00May 31, 2023|
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MILTON, JUNE 1, 2023 – Cheesy Smile will try for her second consecutive stakes win as sophomore pacing fillies take centre stage Friday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park with over $205,000 in total purses split across in two Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold divisions. The 2022 Super Final winner won her last start, the $129,500
Ajaz Firdous2023-05-29T23:06:06-04:00May 29, 2023|
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MILTON, MAY 29, 2023 – Ghostly Casper opened the 2023 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold season by winning the first of two $101,300 divisions for three-year-old trotting colts as the road to the $2.4 million Ontario Sires Stakes Super Finals began tonight at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The son of Resolve prevailed over 1-9 favourite Hasty
Ajaz Firdous2023-05-25T11:45:30-04:00May 25, 2023|
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LONDON – Elises Delight is one of 45 sophomore pacing fillies heading to southern Ontario on Friday to compete for $132,000 in six Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots divisions at The Raceway at the Western Fair District. Elises Delight, trained by Jeff Gillis who bred and owns the filly with Ellen Ott of Buffalo NY, won the
