Monday, May 3rd card of seven races begins the season which is scheduled for 50 days, but purse money available for just 25 days currently.
Industry
Winnipeg track will open for live racing on the date (May 17) that they scheduled for 2021 with plenty of horses.
The Ocala Breeders' Sales April sale of juveniles wrapped up April 23 and an Anderson Farms' Ontario-bred attracted attention.
In an edition of Stronger Together, Woodbine Entertainment president and CEO Jim Lawson is confident racing will get going in the province.
Due to a collaborative effort by the horse racing industry, C-218 includes language that prohibits fixed odds betting on horse racing.
Ontario-breds by Cairo Prince and Classic Empire bring $280,000 and $220,000 respectively as juvenile sale continues.
Tod Mountain Thoroughbreds' homebred by Stay Thirsty was undefeated in 2020 for trainer Christine Ammann, who won some awards of her own.
And Canadians did some buying on the first day of the April Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale in Ocala, led by Malta Manors.
Canada's newly-crowned Horse of the Year makes his 4-year-old debut at Keeneland Apr. 17 while Woodbine is still on hold.
The one-eyed wonder won two-thirds of the Canadian Triple Crown and also was named the champion 3-year-old colt.
A Tuesday evening fire in Barn 60 on the Belmont Park backstretch has unknown origins but 58 horses rescued, 2 perish.
The nominees and champions of 2020 racing in Canada will be honoured in a virtual Sovereign Award ceremony, 7 p.m. EST.
Reacting to the most recent hardships imposed on the racing industry by the recent lockdown, OR is actively working to secure funds.
Every track, every racing organization, every industry member must speak up as government needs to hear from Ontario horse racing.
A rise in positive tests for COVID-19 has led to the Ontario government declaring a 'Stay at Home' order; owners ponder moving horses to US.