Welcome to St. Lad’s Farm a Standardbred breeding facility located 40 km. east of Windsor Ontario in the small hamlet of Ruscom. Meet St. Lad’s Farm owners: Bob Ladouceur and Veronica St Pierre. They combined their names to create “St. Lad’s” and they combined their efforts to produced some of Ontario’s finest race horses. “ […] Read more »
Volunteers To Make Up An OHR Working Group Needed
Ontario Horse Racing, which is the Program Administrator of the Horse Improvement Program, has announced that it is seeking volunteers to participate in a Working Group. The mandate of the group is to develop a number of ideas and scenarios to address the declining horse supply for the 2017 Standardbred Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) […] Read more »
Ontario Sired Two-Year-Olds Compete In Autumn Series
Two-year-olds found themselves in the spotlight Thursday evening at Woodbine Racetrack as the Autumn Series got underway for trotting and pacing colts and geldings. The trotters were up first, and One Direction captured his $14,000 assignment in 1:58.3 for trainer/driver Dustin Jones. The son of Deweycheatumnhowe-Angelina Chip took turns on the lead with Numbers […] Read more »
Maywood’s Windy City Pace Sprinkled With Ontario Performers
Friday’s $180,000 Windy City Pace, one of Maywood Park’s pinnacle races, is a showcase event on an evening sprinkled with star-studded Standardbreds that have journeyed to Chicago’s in-town, half-miler from throughout North America. The pacer that will have travelled the farthest to compete is Three Of Clubs. The Ontario Sires Stakes champion will be […] Read more »
Mach Three Filly, Jiminey Three, Tops Forest City Yearling Sale
Jiminey Three was the 2014 Forest City Yearling Sale topper with a final bid of $85,000 on Sunday at the newly renovated Agriplex at Western Fair District in London, Ont. Selling as Hip 65, Jiminey Three was purchased by Gaston Bibeau of Sorel Tracy, Que. Consigned by agent Preferred Equine, the filly is sired by […] Read more »
Eight Divisions Of OSS Super Final Action Completed At Mohawk Raceway
Eight new Ontario Sires Stakes divisional champions were crowned on Saturday night as this season’s provincial stars faced off in the $2 million Super Finals at Mohawk Racetrack. The 40th anniversary season of the Ontario Sires Stakes concluded with three-year-old trotting filly Riveting Rosie defending her divisional title and giving driver Paul MacDonell his […] Read more »
