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Ontario-sired three-year-old fillies, including a pair of season-debuting O'Brien Award divisional champions, were the headliners on Friday, May 3 at Woodbine Mohawk Park competing in a quartet of $25,000 SBOA Stakes eliminations.

Local harness racing horse owners Strathroy's Dr. Sara Gatchell and Jake Higgs along with Reg Higgs and Yoland...

Standardbred Canada announced the winners of the 2023 O’Brien Awards, honouring Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season, at the Black Tie Gala in Charlottetown, P.E.I. on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. 

The ease with which Willys Home Run won during her rookie season made it seem as if she was born to race. Only, that wasn’t the initial plan.

Willys Home Run (Archangel) crushed in the $300,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Super Final for two-year-old trotting fillies on Friday (Oct. 13) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, completing an undefeated campaign in the provincial program. The filly made her post 10 draw an afterthought with a march to the front in a :27.4 first quarter, claiming the

Woodbine Mohawk Park featured four $300,000 Super Finals on Friday (Oct. 13) evening to conclude the 2023 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions.

Two-year-old trotting filly Willys Home Run continued her divisional dominance on Friday night (Sept. 29) at Woodbine Mohawk Park with a 1:55.3 victory to remain undefeated through five legs of the Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series.

MILTON, September 29, 2023 - The Archangel filly Willys Home Run registered another ‘W’ to stay unbeaten in Gold harness racing action with a 1:55.3 win in the second of two divisions for the $201,700 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) for two-year-old trotting fillies on Friday night (Sept. 29). Off the 1-9 favourite, Willys Home Run

Willys Home Run made her fourth appearance in the Ontario Sires Stakes Gold for freshman trotting fillies on Monday (Sept. 4) at Woodbine Mohawk Park and collected her fourth win of the series, pocketing the winner's share of the $104,000 purse.

Eight of the 13 races carded on Saturday night, Aug. 19 at Woodbine Mohawk Park are for freshmen as three $69,000+ Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions for pacing colts and geldings go postward alongside $30,000 eliminations for the $640,000 William Wellwood Memorial and $400,000 Peaceful Way stakes for trotters.