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Michael Burns Photo     The Ontario Sire Heritage Series concluded Friday at Woodbine with Lorena capturing the $100,000 Ashbridges Bay Stakes and Artie’s Storm winning the $100,000 Lake Ontario Stakes, both Presented by Ontario Racing.   The 1 1/16-mile main track events, the Lake Ontario for Ontario Sired three-year-olds, and the Ashbridges Bay, for Read more

Michael Burns Photo   A pair of main track stakes, the Lake Ontario and Ashbridges Bay, share top billing on Friday’s eight-race card at Woodbine.   The 1 1/16-mile Tapeta events represent the finale of the Ontario Sire Heritage Series, an eight-leg stakes series open to Ontario Sired three-year-olds, contested at Woodbine and Fort Erie Read more

Over the last four weeks, The Jockey Club released its annual statistics for the North American breeding industry and Ontario showed positive gains across the board. The number of Ontario Sired live foals reported to The Jockey Club through Oct. 4 was up 2.6 per cent over last year, the number of stallions registered in Read more

Michael Burns Photo   OCT. 15, 2021 In the fall of 2019, Bernard McCormack took advantage of Ontario’s Mare Purchase Program to acquire Uncle Mo mare Aunty Mo at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. The mare, a $22,000 (USD) purchase, was in foal to Tourist and delivered a handsome colt in February 2020. In Read more

TORONTO, SEPT. 23, 2021 – The Keeneland September Yearling Sale does not come to a close until Friday, Sept. 24, but the 10 day sale has already been an unqualified success for Ontario breeders. Through the first nine days two Ontario Bred horses have sold for $750,000, the Practical Joker-Gal Factor colt consigned by St. Read more

Michael Burns Photo     Story by Chris Lomon   The energetic chestnut was the talk of the town long before he ever set his hooves on the racetrack. As Brandon Greer recalled, the event at a farm near Barrie, Ontario, brought out what seemed to be half of the local community, people from all Read more

Don't miss this opportunity to buy a yearling for the lucrative Ontario-Bred Program. Click the link below to view the 114 Ontario-Bred yearlings catalogued for the September Keeneland Sale   Keeneland Ontario-Bred Yearlings

Price is right: Canadian Sales Stakes grads deliver huge paydays    TORONTO, August 29, 2021 – Woodbine’s Sunday card of racing spotlighted graduates of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s sales vying for over $600,000 in purses across four stakes events. Rookies competed over 6 ½-furlongs on the main track in the $201,200 Simcoe Stakes for colts Read more

Ontario Sire Heritage Series starts with pair of Saturday stakes at Woodbine   TORONTO, August 5, 2021 – A pair of turf stakes, the Georgian Bay, and Lake Huron, will share the spotlight on Saturday’s 11-race card at Woodbine.   The 5-furlong Inner Turf events are part of the Ontario Sire Heritage Series, a new Read more

By Chris Lomon / @ChrisLomon  It was a victory Gail Cox perhaps didn’t quite see coming a mile and a sixteenth away, but one that was a game changer for the trainer and the striking Sam-Son Farm homebred. The odds, 6-1 on the Woodbine infield toteboard, suggested Tidal Forces had a decent shot at winning Read more