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MILTON, SEPTEMBER 4, 2023 – Willys Home Run (Archangel) continued her dominance over the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) this harness racing season with an eye-popping score in the second of two $103,000-plus Gold divisions for two-year-old trotting fillies tonight at Woodbine Mohawk Park. She was made a 1-5 favourite by the betting public in race […]
MILTON, AUGUST 19, 2023 – Odds on favourites won all three $70,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold harness racing divisions for two-year-old pacing colts and geldings tonight at Woodbine Mohawk Park with Funtime Bayama (Hes Watching), Chain Gang (Bettors Delight), and Mirage Hanover (Bettors Delight) emerging victorious. Funtime Bayama started the night rolling to a gate-to-wire […]
TORONTO, AUGUST 10, 2023 – When Rideau Carleton Raceway’s paddock burned down on February 15, the Ottawa harness racing community had to act quickly to save racing in the national capital region. The team at Rideau Carleton mobilized to renovate an old barn into a paddock, and racing began on April 2, after a minor […]
INNISFIL, AUGUST 8, 2023 – Two-year-old trotters invaded Georgian Downs tonight (Aug. 8) with four Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold divisions and Archangel filly Willys Home Run improved to 3 for 3 at the top level of the provincial harness racing program in the first $100,400 division of the evening. In the first two Legs […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, July 28 – The 97th Hambletonian begins on Saturday night (Jul. 29) at the Meadowlands Racetrack with a pair of $100,000 harness racing eliminations and there are three sons of Ontario Sires in the field, Ghostly Casper, Osceola, and Tuscan Prince. Ghostly Casper from the barn of Ben Baillargeon is in race six, the […]
MILTON, JULY 12, 2023 – Hit The Bank’s (The Bank) pari-mutuel debut tomorrow night (Jul. 13) at Woodbine Mohawk Park in race four a $103,100 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) division for two-year-old trotting fillies will give harness racing trainer Gerard Demers a chance at his first OSS win of 2023. Hit The Bank – from […]
MILTON, JULY 6, 2023 – Star harness racing filly Righteous Resolve (Resolve) made her seasonal debut tonight at Woodbine Mohawk Park in the second of two $103,100 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold divisions for three-year-old trotting fillies with an impressive off the pace score. When the wings rolled in race eight the trio of Stonebridge […]
Canada Day weekend is in the rearview mirror, and we have a recap of all the Ontario Sire Stakes (OSS) harness racing action. Glamour Boys Shine on Saturday at Mohawk Midnight Nation (Betterthancheddar) was a breakthrough winner on Saturday night, winning the first of two $101,300 Gold divisions for three-year-old male pacers in Leg One […]
TORONTO JUNE 9, 2023 – My World Champion. Those are the words Brad Fritz – caretaker of Apaches Fame (Apache Circle) and son of the late William ‘Bud’ Fritz – thinks of when he hears the famous harness racing horse’s name 33 years after his triumph in the 1990 Pepsi North America Cup at Greenwood […]
MILTON, MAY 29, 2023 – Ghostly Casper (Resolve) opened the 2023 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold season by winning the first of two $101,300 divisions for three-year-old harness racing trotting colts as the road to the $2.4 million Ontario Sires Stakes Super Finals began tonight (May 29) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. He prevailed over 1-9 […]
LONDON, May 25, 2023 – Elises Delight (Bettors Delight) is one of 45 sophomore pacing fillies heading to southern Ontario on Friday (May 26) to compete for $132,000 in six Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots harness racing divisions at The Raceway at the Western Fair District. Elises Delight, trained by Jeff Gillis who bred and owns […]
DUNDAS, October 2, 2022 – The Ontario Sires Stakes Gold season for two-year-old pacing colts and geldings wrapped up tonight at Flamboro Downs with Moment Is Here (All Bets Off) earning his breakthrough harness racing victory at the top level of the provincial program in the lone $156,300 division. A gelded son of All Bets […]
DUNDAS, September 4 – Louis-Philippe Roy scored a harness racing driving double tonight as the province’s top freshman trotters clashed in four $100,000-plus Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions at Flamboro Downs (Sep 04). The nine race card featured two divisions for colts and geldings, and two divisions for fillies. Roy swept the male half of […]
INNISFIL, August 7 – The glamour boys were at Georgian Downs tonight (Aug. 7) for a pair of Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions, and the harness racing father-son duo of Gregg and Doug McNair was victorious in each. Sport Secret (Sportswriter) started the night off earning his first stakes victory in the $102,200 division in […]
Ontario Sires Stakes action made its season debut at Rideau Carleton Raceway on July 10 with Gold and Grassroots harness racing divisions for three-year-old trotting colts. The $157,200 Gold division was the feature race of the evening, and James MacDonald capped off his four-win night by driving 4-5 favourite Twin B Archie (Archangel) to victory. […]
