Ontario sires will be well represented in the 68th Woodbine Oaks on Sunday, July 23 at Woodbine. The $500,000 race presented by Budweiser will be drawn Thursday and as many as 11 could be entered.

The possible starters come from everywhere: stakes winner TICKER TAPE HOME was bought for a whopping $625,000 at the 2021 Fasig Tipton Saratoga yearling sale by Love Oak Plantation from breeder Sam-Son Farms. Sam-Son raced the filly’s stakes-winning dam Journey Home, who loved longer distances.

On the other end of the scale, Barbara Minshall’s FORTYFIVESEVENTY was a $4,000 purchase at the 2021 Fasig Tipton October yearling sale in Kentucky. Bred by Charles Fipke, Fortyfivesevnty is by Ontario stallion PERFECT TIMBER (Perfect Soul) who was second in the Grade 1 Northern Dancer Stakes at Woodbine in his racing career for Fipke.

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