Dave Briggs2025-08-22T12:50:31-04:00August 22, 2025|
by Dave Briggs / Ontario Racing David Anderson believes the Canadian Premier Yearling Sale being held on Wednesday (Aug. 27) at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion is the antidote to a U.S. sales sector that “right now is out of control” and pricing the average horse owner out of the market. “Historically, [the Canadian sale] has Read more
Dave Briggs2025-08-15T20:53:19-04:00August 15, 2025|
by Hayley Morrison for Ontario Racing “The race has evolved, has changed, and has been challenged as far as the various components that go into having a live show put on once of year. But it’s something we can’t take for granted. We can’t take tradition, or our identity for granted.” Racing historian Tom Cosgrove Read more
Dave Briggs2025-07-29T09:01:23-04:00July 29, 2025|
by Dave Briggs / Ontario Racing Looking down from balcony of the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion in Saratoga Springs, NY, Ontario breeder Arika Everatt-Meeuse thought she was going to vomit. It was exactly 26 days after her mother, Boss Lady J, had died. Everatt-Meeuse had spent much of the trip crying and now the hammer was Read more
Dave Briggs2025-07-20T11:32:45-04:00July 20, 2025|
by Chris Lomon / Woodbine communications (This story originally appeared here) The $150,000 Plate Trial Stakes, a key fixture on the road to this year’s King’s Plate (Aug.16), has drawn 10 hopefuls - all, but one Ontario-bred - including Scorching (above / Michael Burns photo) , who will be ridden by John Velazquez, Sunday (July Read more
Dave Briggs2025-07-18T12:31:22-04:00July 18, 2025|
by Chris Lomon / Woodbine communications (This story originally appeared here) Twelve Ontario-bred fillies, including five Mark Casse trainees, will vie for top prize in the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks Presented by Stella Artois, one of four stakes on Sunday’s (July 2o) 10-race card at Woodbine. Inaugurated in 1956, the filly classic, for Canadian-foaled 3-year-old fillies Read more
Dave Briggs2025-06-28T20:25:20-04:00June 28, 2025|
by Chris Lomon / Woodbine communications Ontario-breds won two of the five stakes on Woodbine Racetrack's Saturday (June 28) Canada Day Racing Festival card. Reigning Canadian Horse of the Year Patches O'Houlihan won the $200,000 bet365 Highlander Stakes (Grade 2) and Mansetti won the 150,000 HPIbet Marine Stakes (Grade 3). Patches O’Houlihan (above) drifted out Read more
Dave Briggs2025-06-23T09:33:58-04:00June 23, 2025|
by Chris Lomon / Woodbine communications This story originally appeared here. The curtain raised on the Ontario Sired Heritage Series Sunday afternoon at Woodbine with a pair of $100,000 stakes, the Georgian Bay and Lake Huron. The five-furlong inner turf events are part of the Ontario Sired Heritage Series, an eight-leg stakes series open to Read more
Dave Briggs2025-06-20T10:40:56-04:00June 20, 2025|
by Chris Lomon / Woodbine communications A pair of stakes, the $100,000 Georgian Bay and $100,000 Lake Huron, mark the start of this year’s Ontario Sired Heritage Series, Sunday (June 22) at Woodbine. Established in 2021, the Ontario Sired Heritage Series is comprised of three $100,000 legs and a $100,000 final for two divisions: 3-year-old Read more
Dave Briggs2025-05-15T12:17:01-04:00May 15, 2025|
by Dave Briggs / Ontario Racing The popularity of “Buy Canadian” programs as a response to U.S. threats on Canada’s sovereignty has been extended to Ontario’s horse racing industry in a campaign called Bet Ontario (#betontario). Ontario Racing is encouraging those that choose to bet on horse racing to consider the critical importance of wagering Read more
Dave Briggs2025-05-07T16:37:43-04:00May 7, 2025|
by Dave Briggs / Ontario Racing When Frank Di Giulio, Jr. saw the date of the Thorncliffe Stakes, he knew The Force would be with Ontario-bred Patches O’Houlihan. “When I saw that this race was scheduled for May the fourth, I said, ‘This is too good,’” said Di Giulio, Jr. “I was looking forward to Read more
