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Ajaz Firdous2022-09-28T18:21:08-04:00September 29, 2022|
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MILTON, September 29 – Trainer Gregg McNair finds himself in a familiar position as the Ontario Sires Stakes season draws to a close, near the top of the Johnston Cup standings, and with colts in his stable primed to make a run at Super Final glory. Two of the Guelph, Ont. resident’s colts, Stonebridge Helios
Ajaz Firdous2022-09-28T15:59:02-04:00September 28, 2022|
MILTON, September 28 – Nominations for the Ontario Sired Harvest Series, and the Ontario Sired Autumn Series close Saturday, October 1. The Ontario Sired Harvest Series will have two $17,000 legs and a $40,000 added money final. If there are multiple divisions of the legs, each division will race for 100 per cent of the
Ajaz Firdous2022-09-27T09:54:25-04:00September 26, 2022|
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MILTON, September 26 – Saying that the 2019 Millar Farms foal crop produced superb pacing fillies is like saying Andre the Giant was a big guy, or the Mariana Trench is deep. Tonight, at Woodbine Mohawk Park the Stouffville, Ont., farm’s homebreds continued to prove the class of the division, with Velvet Stinger and Prohibition
Ajaz Firdous2022-09-26T10:37:26-04:00September 26, 2022|
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MILTON, September 24, 2022 – After tasting defeat for the first time in his career one week ago, rookie Stockade Seelster started a new win streak courtesy of an impressive performance in the $900,000 Metro Pace, Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park. A bay son of State Treasurer-Soiree Seelster, Stockade Seelster arrived at the Metro
Ajaz Firdous2022-09-23T17:25:26-04:00September 24, 2022|
MILTON, September 24 – 2021 Super Final champion Prohibition Legal has been out of action for two months and will make her return in the one of two $104,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions for three-year-old pacing fillies on Monday at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The daughter of Big Jim was nearly flawless as a freshman,
Ajaz Firdous2022-09-23T16:13:40-04:00September 23, 2022|
MILTON, September 23 – The Merriam Webster dictionary defines magic as “the use of means (such as charms or spells) believed to have supernatural power over natural forces.” On Saturday September 24 at Woodbine Mohawk Park Glengate Farms homebred Oh Look Magic won’t be able to rely on supernatural assistance, he’ll have to win the third
Ajaz Firdous2022-09-22T14:04:56-04:00September 22, 2022|
TORONTO, September 21 – Ontario Racing’s Standardbred Improvement Program Committee is announcing a $720,000 increase to the purses for the 2023 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Super Finals and Grassroots Championships and raising the purse for Prospect Series legs to $8,000. All eight Gold Super Finals will have a purse of $300,000 in 2023, a boost of
Ajaz Firdous2022-09-22T12:57:46-04:00September 22, 2022|
MILTON, September 22 – The Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots Semi-Finals are tonight at Woodbine Mohawk Park, with eight two-year-old races tonight, and eight three-year-old races tomorrow night. The entrants are battling for a spot in the $60,000 Grassroots Championships on October 1 at Woodbine Mohawk Park where $480,000 will be up for grabs. Check out
Ajaz Firdous2022-09-12T10:40:43-04:00September 10, 2022|
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MILTON, September 10, 2022 – Not many trainers want a dead head but that’s what Nick Gallucci was hoping for it at the conclusion of the single Simcoe Stakes division for three-year-old pacing fillies on Saturday at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Silver Label and Velvet Stinger, both trained by Gallucci, finished inches apart at the wire.
Ajaz Firdous2022-09-04T23:06:46-04:00September 4, 2022|
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DUNDAS, September 4 – Louis-Philippe Roy scored a driving double tonight as the province’s top freshman trotters clashed in four $100,000-plus Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions at Flamboro Downs. The nine race card featured two divisions for colts and geldings, and two divisions for fillies. Roy swept the male half of the OSS quartet. Race five
