Lindsey Fex and the thoroughbred Diamond Hunter are one of two Alberta entries heading to the $100,000 Thoroughbred .

Equine Guelph is calling on grooms, trainers and owners in the racing industry, to complete a first of its kind survey on racehorse health and well-being to direct future research and programs for the industry. Your feedback can help shape the future of racing in Ontario. The goal of the survey is to learn more […]

Will She, patiently handled by Jesse Campbell, settled off a hot early pace before pouncing to an open lengths score in Sunday’s co-featured $150,000 Fanfreluche Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Mike Keogh for owner-breeder Gustav Schickedanz, Will She arrived at the six furlong Tapeta sprint for Ontario-bred juvenile fillies from an off-the-board effort in the […]

Robert Marzilli’s Caren made her final start of 2016 a winning one with a front-running score in Sunday’s $150,000 Carotene Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Mike DePaulo, the three-year-old daughter of Society’s Chairman picked up her fourth stakes win of the meet, and surged past CDN$1-million in purse earnings, with a decisive score in the […]

Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) and The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) today announced an agreement customers can now wager directly

The 2016 thoroughbred racing season at Northlands Park Racetrack & Casino concluded today with Rico Walcott winning the Harvest Gold Plate aboard Royal Warrior in the last stakes race of the season. The average daily handle was at $273,767 while the 69-day meet saw export sales hit $176,158. “Thoroughbred racing is a true thrill ride,” […]

It was another record setting year at the Fort Erie Race Track, as the 119th season of live racing at the border oval came to a close on Tuesday, Oct. 18. Among the many positive highlights for the year was a 20 percent increase in all-source wagering to $28,855,000 over 40 days of racing. On-track […]

The 2016 live racing season came to end on Sunday and its very good to report the 2016 season was a total success. The most important stat I believe is we have stabilized the industry over the last three years and 2016 we started to turn the corner and head back in the upward direction […]

Horse people from the Quarter Horse, Standardbred and Thoroughbred industries in Ontario have joined together to form the Horse Peoples’ Alliance of Ontario. The Horse Peoples’ Alliance of Ontario believes that the horse people of Ontario need to empower their advocacy and representation with the government and the racetracks by at last joining together horse […]

Yesterday during the Queen’s Park question period, Conservative MPP Randy Pettapiece from Perth-Wellington who serves as opposition critic for the horse racing industry, called on the Minister of Finance, Charles Sousa, to do more to help Ontario’s horse racing industry, and commit to keeping all 14 of Ontario’s racetracks open. Pettapiece pointed out that it […]