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The Ontario Sires Stakes program will open its 50th anniversary season on Sunday, May 19 with the three-year-old trotting colts squaring off in Grassroots action on the Charles Juravinski Memorial Cup program at Flamboro Downs.

Mike Hennessy and Phil Giesbrecht recently both went over the $1-million mark for driving earnings this year, achieving the feat for the first time in their careers.

Mike Hennessy won six races including the Alberta Sires Stakes Two-Year-Old Filly Super Final with precocious Byby Baby Byby. Yet, Hennessy was still upstaged by Doug McNair, who was flown into Edmonton from Ontario by Alberta trainer Jamie Gray for Saturday’s Super Final card at Century Mile.

There was no shortage of action on the packed Saturday (Nov. 4) evening card at Century Mile with the ABSS Super Finals on tap as the main event with headliners featured by the longest win streak of the year extended by Shark Week and a $10 million career milestone earned by trainer Jamie Gray.

It is time to crown the top Alberta-sired harness racing horses, and over $416,000 is up for grabs during the Super Finals Saturday (Nov. 4) card at Century Mile. Two-year-old and three-year-old divisions for both fillies and colts will go for $75,000. There are also consolations for each division going for $15,000. The card also

Two weeks ago, on Oct. 14 at Century Mile, Byby Baby Byby and Outlawguns N Roses put on such a monumental performance in the Alberta Sires Stakes Starburst leg that it prompted Byby Baby Byby’s trainer Rod Hennessy to call it “one of the best miles paced in Western Canada by anyone.”

The stage is set. Favourite Over The Horizon and longshot King Kong slayer Blue Star Mercury both won this past Saturday’s Western Canada Pacing Derby eliminations to advance to this Saturday’s prestigious and rich $110,710 Derby final at Century Mile.

Driver John De Long was the star of the show at Hoosier Park on Friday night (Oct. 13) winning five Indiana Sires Stakes harness racing finals raced over a track that got wetter as the night progressed and the rain intensified. De Long, Hoosier Park’s second leading driver behind Trace Tetrick, took three $250,000 Super

Woodbine Mohawk Park will feature the finale of the 2023 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) program, hosting the final four Super Finals for the provincial program's brightest stars on Saturday, Oct. 14.