Notices & Updates

Mail nominations early to avoid postal interruption!

2025-05-06T16:35:57-04:00May 6, 2025|

The Ontario Sires Stakes office would like to encourage owners and breeders to submit their yearling nomination payment well before the May 15, 2025 deadline.

With current collective agreements between Canada Post and CUPW expiring on May 22, 2025, the potential for a strike exists. Mailing your yearling nomination payment in advance of the deadline will ensure it reaches the OSS office before any disruption to the postal service occurs.

The yearling nomination payment of $100 ($75 USD) nominates foals of 2024 to race as two-year-olds in 2026 and three-year-olds in 2027 (OSS54).

Payment can be made through the Yearling Nomination online payment form on the Registration tab of the OSS website before midnight on May 15, 2025, or by mail, postmarked no later than May 15, 2025. Payments by cheque should be made payable to ‘Ontario Sires Stakes’ and mailed to:

Ontario Sires Stakes
P.O. Box 160
Campbellville, ON L0P 1B0

Nominations made after May 15, 2025, are subject to a late fee. The Late Yearling Nomination fee is $500 prior to Aug. 15, 2025, and increases to $1,500 from Aug. 16, 2025, to March 16, 2026.

All yearlings must be registered at time of nomination and Standardbred Canada requires that DNA and microchipping be complete before the registration is finalised.

If you have questions about nominating a horse to the OSS, please contact the Program Coordinator at (416) 407-4841 or ossprogram@ontarioracing.com.

Two-Year-Old OSS Sustaining Payment Due March 17

2025-03-05T16:11:34-05:00March 5, 2025|

If you plan to race your two-year-old in the 2025 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) program, please submit your sustaining payment by mail, postdated no later than March 17, 2025, or through the OSS online form.

The sustaining payment is $600 ($450 USD). Two-year-olds sustained to the 2025 OSS must have been nominated as a yearling in 2024.

If your two-year-old was not nominated to the OSS as a yearling in 2024, it can still be nominated by submitting the $1,500 ($1,125 USD) late fee and form prior to March 17, 2025.

Once nominated, the two-year-old can then be sustained for the 2025 two-year-old season by submitting the $600 sustaining payment, also by March 17, 2025.

Payments can be mailed to:

Ontario Sires Stakes
P.O. Box 160
Campbellville, ON L0P 1B0

If you have any questions about sustaining a horse to the Ontario Sires Stakes program please email ossprogram@ontarioracing.com or call 416-407-4841.

Three-year-old Sustaining Payment due Feb. 18

2025-02-03T15:49:22-05:00February 3, 2025|

Three-year-olds nominated to the Ontario Sires Stakes program (OSS52) as yearlings and intending to race in the Gold, Grassroots or Prospect Series in 2025 must be sustained to the program by Feb. 18, 2025.

The three-year-old sustaining fee is $800 ($600 USD) and can be paid through the OSS online payment portal, via the Standardbred Canada Eshop or by sending a cheque, postmarked no later than Feb. 18, 2025, to:

Ontario Sires Stakes
P.O. Box 160
Campbellville, ON L0P 1B0

If you have any questions about sustaining a horse to the Ontario Sires Stakes program please email ossprogram@ontarioracing.com or call 416-407-4841.

Reminder: Stallion Registration for 2025 Breeding Season Jan. 15

2024-12-03T13:48:23-05:00December 3, 2024|

The Ontario Sires Stakes would like to remind participants that Stallion Registration for the 2025 Breeding Season is due Jan. 15, 2025.

Registration for all stallions wishing to stand stud in Ontario for the 2025 season must be received by the OSS Program Coordinator by Jan. 15.

Applications to register a stallion received by the Program after January 15 will be subject to a Late Registration Fee.

To obtain a registration form, call 416-407-4841 or visit this link.

Ontario Resident Mare Forms Mailed

2024-10-09T09:40:52-04:00October 9, 2024|

Ontario Racing would like to inform broodmare owners that mare enrolment forms and renewal forms for the Ontario Resident Mare Program have been mailed for the 2025 foaling year.

Please note that some changes have been made to the program and the enrolment form. Please read the Notice enclosed with the forms carefully.

To qualify as an Ontario Resident Mare, and have the foal registered as “Ontario Bred,” the mare must be enrolled in the program for each foaling year and meet the program’s eligibility requirements. These requirements include being resident in the Province of Ontario at the time of enrolment and remaining resident in the province for 180 days surrounding the date of foaling.

The annual enrolment fee is $100 per mare before foaling or $300 after foaling but before Sept. 1 of the foaling year. If enrolling after foaling, proof of residency must be submitted at time of enrolment.

If you have a mare in foal for 2025 and do not receive a form in the mail soon, one can be downloaded from the Ontario Racing website, on the Ontario Resident Mare Program page, or requested by emailing ontariomare@ontarioracing.com or calling Kathie Wilkinson at 416-576-6298.

Only foals out of mare enrolled in the program are entitled to earn Ontario Bred Rewards which are payable to the breeder who made the decision to participate by enrolling the mare in the Ontario Resident Mare Program. The program is currently paying approximately $2.6 million in Ontario Bred Rewards to breeders of qualified horses earning purses on Ontario Sires Stakes and selected Open races

Two-year-old colt trot Prospect Series cancelled at Flamboro Downs

2024-09-23T10:29:09-04:00September 23, 2024|

MILTON, SEPT. 23, 2024 – Flamboro Downs cancelled its Saturday, Sept. 21 card due to unsafe track conditions (read the notice here), and as a result Leg 5A of the two-year-old trotting colt Prospect Series was not contested.

The Standardbred Improvement Program committee has decided to equally divide the purse and points among the Leg 5A contestants. Leg 5A was programmed as Race 2 and 4 on the Sept. 21 card.

All participants have been notified, and the Prospect Series standings on the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) website will be updated on September 25 to reflect this result.

For additional information, please contact the OSS Program Coordinator at ossprogram@ontarioracing.com.

Reminder: Late Yearling Nomination Deadline due Aug. 15

2024-08-14T11:51:37-04:00August 14, 2024|

The late yearling nomination deadline for the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) program is Aug. 15, 2024.

Please submit your nomination payment through the OSS online payment form by midnight on Aug. 15, 2024, or by mail postdated no later than Aug. 15, 2024.

The late fee is $500 CDN and nominates foals of 2023 to race in 2025 and 2026.

All yearlings must be registered at time of nomination and Standardbred Canada requires that the DNA and microchipping be completed before the foal is registered. To register your foal online with Standardbred Canada click here.

Between August 15, 2024, and March 15, 2025, foals of 2023 will be subject to a Late Nomination fee of $1,500 CDN.

KEY DOCUMENTS

Yearling Nomination Form PDF

Yearling Nomination online form

Cheques should be made payable and mailed to:

Ontario Sires Stakes
c/o Woodbine Mohawk Park
PO Box 160
Campbellville, ON
L0P 1B0

If you have questions about nominating a horse to the OSS, please contact the Program Coordinator at (416) 407-4841 or ossprogram@ontarioracing.com.

Sophomore trotting filly Prospect Series division will go July 7, as drawn

2024-07-02T11:47:12-04:00July 2, 2024|

MILTON, July 2, 2024 – As a result of the cancellation of the last two races at Georgian Downs on Sunday, June 30, Ontario Racing was required to postpone the second division of Leg 3A of the three-year-old trotting filly Prospect Series (Race 10).

The second division will now be contested on Sunday, July 7 at Georgian Downs and will go postward as originally drawn.

For additional information please email ossprogram@ontarioracing.com.

Reminder: Yearling Nomination Deadline due May 15

2024-04-22T16:30:06-04:00April 22, 2024|

The yearling nomination deadline for the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) program is May 15, 2024.

Please submit your nomination payment through the OSS online payment form by midnight on May 15, 2024, or by mail postdated no later than May 15, 2024.

The fee is $100 ($80 USD) and nominates foals of 2023 to race in 2025 and 2026.

All yearlings must be registered at time of nomination and Standardbred Canada requires that the DNA and microchipping be completed before the foal is registered. To register your foal online with Standardbred Canada click here.

Nominations made after May 15, 2024, are subject to a late fee. A Late Nomination costs $500 ($USD TBA).

Prior to August 15, 2024, the late Yearling Nomination fee is $500 (USD TBD).

Between August 15, 2024, and March 15, 2025, foals of 2023 will be subject to a two-year-old Late Nomination fee of $1,500 CDN.

KEY DOCUMENTS

Yearling Nomination Form PDF

Yearling Nomination sustaining online form

Cheques should be made payable and mailed to:

Ontario Sires Stakes
c/o Woodbine Mohawk Park
PO Box 160
Campbellville, ON
L0P 1B0

If you have questions about nominating a horse to the OSS, please contact the Program Coordinator at (416) 407-4841 or ossprogram@ontarioracing.com.