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DUNDAS, Ont., May 19, 2024 – The OSS Grassroots season kicked off with a trio of races Sunday at Flamboro Downs on Charles Juravinski Memorial Cup night. Beginning the evening of $20,000 Grassroots events, in Race 2, the Keith Jones-trained, Jefferey Ruch and Alfred Ross-bred, Douglas McCarthy-owned NORTH OF NINE (ROYALTY FOR LIFE) scored the

MILTON, May 17, 2024 - The Ontario Sires Stakes 50th Anniversary Celebration kicks off Sunday at Flamboro Downs with three $20,000 Grassroots Series divisions for the three-year-old trotting colts featured on the undercard of the Charles Juravinski Memorial Cup program. The Grassroots divisions are slated as Races 2, 4, and 8, with the $50,000 Margaret

By Robert Smith The OSS is celebrating its 50th anniversary season this year with special anniversary dates at tracks around the province where fans will be able to watch OSS Gold or Grassroots races, view memorabilia from seasons past, enjoy giveaways and more. Don't miss the first celebration date as we kick off the Grassroots

MILTON, MAY 7, 2024 - As the Ontario Sires Stakes enters its 50th season, its golden anniversary will be celebrated at 11 Standardbred tracks across Ontario. On select dates, tracks will hold special OSS 50th Anniversary Celebration days, where fans will be able to watch OSS Gold or Grassroots races, view memorabilia from seasons past,

The Ontario Sires Stakes program will open its 50th anniversary season on Sunday, May 19 with the three-year-old trotting colts squaring off in Grassroots action on the Charles Juravinski Memorial Cup program at Flamboro Downs. Later that week Woodbine Mohawk Park will host the Gold Series opener with a star-studded Saturday, May 25 card that

By Steven Loung/Ontario Racing TORONTO, Janurary 12, 2024 - Willys Home Run was one of the breakout success stories of the 2023 OSS season, capturing five Gold Series victories in her debut season. The ease with which the brown filly won made it seem as if she was born to race. Only, that wasn’t the initial

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MILTON, October 14, 2023 – Homebred Moment Is Here rebounded from a sixth-place effort his last time out to capture the $300,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series Super Final for sophomore pacing colts Saturday at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Steered by Tim Tetrick, the gelded son of All Bets Off-Breathtacular outkicked favored Stockade Seelster and held

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MILTON, October 14, 2023 – In a division with no dominating horse this season, Ghostly Casper, driven by Tyler Borth, was much the best winning the $300,000 three-year-old colt and gelding trot Gold Series Super Final on Saturday at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The 1:53 winning mile was a personal best for the Resolve-Cool Creek Breeze

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MILTON, October 14, 2023 – The Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series Super Final for three-year-old pacing fillies wrote its own headline when a sentimental favourite dug deep for victory. One Last Wish walked quietly out of the Woodbine Mohawk Park paddock for the post parade, in line to regular driver Paul MacDonell. As she headed

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MILTON, October 14, 2023 – A Gold Series victory had eluded Believe U Me in four previous starts, but the sophomore trotter brought her best effort Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park. With Louis-Philippe Roy in the bike, the Muscle Mass-I Believe filly overcame the outside post to score a 1:54.3 upset in the $300,000