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TORONTO, November 3, 2022 – Twin City, trained and co-owned by Stuart Simon, will take aim at top prize in the $250,000 Coronation Futurity, Sunday at Woodbine. The 1 1/8-mile Tapeta event for Canadian-foaled 2-year-olds is a significant race on the road to the 164th running of the Queen’s Plate, the first jewel of the OLG Canadian Triple Read more

TORONTO, October 20, 2022 – The Grade 3 $150,000 Ontario Derby, for 3-year-olds, and the $125,000 Ontario Damsel, for 3-year-old fillies, co-headline Sunday’s 10-race card at Woodbine. Trainer Willie Armata and his father, fellow conditioner Vito Armata, each have a legitimate contender in the Ontario Derby, a 1 1/8-mile main track tilt that includes multiple Read more

TORONTO, October 20, 2022 – The third leg of Ontario Racing’s Thoroughbred Improvement Program’s Ontario Sire Heritage Series, the $100,000 Thunder Bay for three-year-old fillies, and $100,000 Lake Superior for three-year-old colts and geldings, share the spotlight on Friday afternoon’s card at Woodbine Racetrack. Nine fillies, including series leader, Pleasure’s Gold, will take to the Read more

TORONTO, October 14, 2022 — Wickenheiser will be trying to honour her namesake and to emulate one particular stablemate when she faces nine other Canadian-bred 2-year-old fillies in Sunday’s $250,000, 1 1/16-mile Princess Elizabeth Stakes. Owned by Clay Scherer and Al and Bill Ulwelling and Partner, Wickenheiser was named after Hayley Wickenheiser, whose many honours Read more

TORONTO, October 12, 2022— Poulin in O T, a winner of three of four career starts including a pair of stakes for trainer Steve Owens, looms as the horse to beat in Friday’s Frost King. The Frost King attracted a field of seven Ontario-sired colts and geldings and goes as the seventh race over 6 Read more

TORONTO, October 12, 2022 — Ancient Spirit and A Touch of Red, a pair of homebreds trained by Sid Attard for Howard Walton, will be looking to continue their winning ways in Friday’s South Ocean Stakes. The South Ocean is a 6 1/2 -furlong main-track race for Ontario-sired 2-year-old fillies. Competing for Walton’s Norseman Racing Read more

TORONTO, October 4 – Ontario Racing’s Thoroughbred Improvement Program (TIP) is reporting a 155 per cent increase in the usage of sales credits at the 2022 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s (CTHS) Canadian Premier Yearling Sale. A total of $108,500 worth of sales credits were used to purchase 51 different horses at the August 31 sale, Read more

TORONTO, September 25, 2022 – Lucky Score, under Leo Salles, was full of run late to take Sunday’s Grade 3 $180,000 Vigil Stakes at Woodbine. A 4-year-old son of Lookin At Lucky-Miss Matzo, Lucky Score arrived at the 6-furlong main track race for 3-year-olds and up without a stakes score on his stat sheet. On a rainy afternoon Read more

TORONTO, September 24, 2022 – Ancient Spirit, under Rafael Hernandez, seized control at the top of the lane en route to victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Victorian Queen Stakes, for 2-year-old Ontario-sired fillies, at Woodbine. Trained by Sid Attard for owner-breeder Howie Walton (Norseman Racing Stable), the daughter of Signature Red-Gemini arrived at the ‘about’ 7-furlong Read more