Prairie Illusion was a wire-to-wire winner in Sunday’s featured $10,500 Fillies & Mares Open Pace as she held off a host of Jim Marino stablemates in the stretch. Marino had his turn in the spotlight though with five wins on the 12-race card. Bill Davis teamed up with Prairie Illusion for the first time and […] Read more »
Ontario-Bred, Legion Of Boom, Takes Ontario Boys Series
Legion Of Boom lowered the boom with a 42-1 upset in the Ontario Boys Series final on Saturday night (Feb. 27) at Woodbine Racetrack. A compact field of six competed in the $45,000 final of the three-week series for Ontario-sired four-year-olds. Headlining the group of six was a pair of Richard Moreau trainees. Cajon Lightning […] Read more »
Happy Birthday Peaceful Way!
On this day in 2001, 15 years ago, one of the greatest performers in Canadian harness racing was born at Stonebridge Farm in Arva, Ont. Plucked from the 2002 Forest City Yearling Sale in London, Ont. for $30,000 by trainer Dave Tingley of Guelph, Ont. and Joe Myers of Virginia, Peaceful Way — originally called […] Read more »
Ontario-Sired, Waasmula, Matches Season’s Record
Waasmula matched Canada’s fastest mile of the 2016 harness racing season on Friday night (Feb. 26) with a 1:50.4 winning effort in a $25,000 upper-level conditioned event at Woodbine Racetrack for trainer Bruce Goit. A Mares Preferred regular, Waasmula was sent postward as the 3-5 favourite in the seventh race for fillies and mares that […] Read more »
2016 Ontario Budget Extends Partnership And Support For Horse Industry
The 2016 Ontario Budget released on Thursday (February 25) by Finance Minister Charles Souza would give the province’s horse racing industry two more years of government partnership and support. Titled “Jobs for Today and Tomorrow”, the budget (available in full here) states that the provincial transfer payment program (formerly known as the Horse Racing Partnership […] Read more »
Ontario-Sired, Somebody AS, Wins Dover’s Open Trot
Newcomer Somebody AS, the race favourite, was never challenged en route to a 1:54.2 victory in the $20,000 Open/Handicap Trot on a longshot-filled Wednesday, Feb. 24 card at Dover Downs. Somebody AS left quickly from the middle of an eight-horse field to get the lead in rein to Corey Callahan and never was tested on […] Read more »
