The SBOA want breeders to know that the Enhanced Breeders’ Rewards for their 2016 foals will be going out in mid-February.

Under the Breeders’ Enhancement Program, administered by the Standardbred Breeders Of Ontario Association (SBOA), breeders will receive approximately $3M per year from 2015 to 2018 in various breeders’ incentives. Below is an outline of the SBOA’s ‘four-pronged program” to enhancing breeders rewards. The first three prongs of the program require that reward recipients are both ONTARIO SIRED and ONTARIO BRED (from Ontario Resident Mares). The goal of this program is to reward breeders who reside their mares within the province and that support the stallions that stand in Ontario. The program will be based on the next four racing/breeding seasons (2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018). The goal was to design a program that would be worth approximately $3 Million in each of these seasons.

“FOUR-PRONGED PROGRAM”

$1.0 Million – to be paid to registered foals that are both ONTARIO SIRED and ONTARIO BRED (from Ontario Resident Mares). All 2016 foals that are both Ontario Bred and Ontario Sired must be fully registered with either Standardbred Canada or the USTA by December 31, 2016in order to share in their pro-rata portion of the $1 million breeders’ incentive. Breeders’ incentives are to be paid out on a pro rata basis — as determined by the advertised service fee of the Ontario Sire (recorded with the OSS for the 2015 breeding season). No exceptions will be provided for late registrations.

$1.0 Million – to be used to augment the Ontario Bred Rewards that already exist under HIP. Eligible horses will also need to meet the requirement of being ONTARIO SIRED. Horses eligible to receive rewards under this part of the enhanced program will share in their pro-rata split of the $1.0 Million, based on their earnings in Ontario Sires Stakes races and selected open stakes races in Ontario. These rewards will start in 2015 with the 2 and 3-year-old performers.

$400,000 – Each of the eight OSS divisions will split a $50,000 reward amongst the top three performers in each of the respective divisions, based on OSS earnings. The rewards will be split in the following manner:

1^st – $25,000

2^nd – $15,000

3^rd – $10,000

Recipients of these bonuses will also have to meet the criteria of being ONTARIO BRED (from Ontario Resident Mares). Should any of the highest earning individuals in any given division not be ONTARIO BRED (from Ontario Resident Mares), than the next highest earner who meets the criteria will receive the respective reward. The top performers of 2015 will be the first group eligible for these rewards.

$400,000 – $100,000 will be paid to the top OSS stallions based on earnings in the OSS in each of the following categories:

2-year-old trotters

2-year-old pacers

3-year-old trotters

3-year-old pacers

In order to receive this reward, a stallion must currently reside in the province ie. If a stallion was the leading money winning sire of 2-year-old trotters in 2015, than the stallion must have also stood in the province that same year. If a stallion did not stand in the province at this time, than the next highest earning stallion that meets the criteria would receive the reward. This reward would be payable to the stallion owner/syndicate. The leading stallions of 2015 will be the first group eligible for these rewards.