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
