When Ivan Dalos came to Canada from Hungary 60 years ago, he didn’t even know horse racing existed.
Now the owner of Tall Oaks Farm is a finalist for the Sovereign Awards for both top owner and breeder thanks to an outstanding 2015.

Ivan Dalos did not even know horse racing existed when he came to Canada from Hungary at about the same time E.P. Taylor opened the new Woodbine Racetrack in 1956. In fact, he calls his introduction to the world of the thoroughbred at the dawn of the 1980s a “fluke, an accident.”

There has been nothing accidental about the rise of the Toronto businessman’s self-made bloodlines that have been 30 years in the making and the 73-year-old is as determined as ever to improve on what is already one of the best broodmare bands in the country.

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