Don Drummond

Windsor "Shocked" By Slot Closure

Officials and staff from Windsor Raceway reacted to the news that its slot facility would close at the end of April 2012 with shock, disappointment and confusion noting that the move would affect 217 ...

OLG Closing Slots At Windsor, Hiawatha, Fort Erie

The effects of Monday's OLG gaming modernization will be felt starting today. The province will close slot operations at three tracks, both Windsor Raceway and Hiawatha Horse Park on the standardbred ...

OHHA Continues Efforts To Save Racing

In light of Monday's announcement ending Ontario's slots at racetracks partnership in 2013, the Ontario Harness Horse Association continues to meet with members of the Progressive Conservative Party a...

WEG's Eaves On OLG Announcement

The Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) has issued the following statement from its president and CEO, Nick Eaves, based on the Ontario government's announcement to cancel the Slots-at-Racetracks Progr...

Leslie: OLG Dropping Its Best Partner

“We knew OLG was looking to expand its land-base gaming. Because we are the most profitable partner OLG has --- we return more than $1 billion a year --- we foolishly thought they would look to us as ...

“I Really Don’t Think These Guys Understand What They’re Doing”

On Monday, in front of a backdrop which inexplicably proclaimed 'JOBS' and 'GROWTH,' Ontario Finance Minster Dwight Duncan and Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. Chair Paul Godfrey underwhelmingly annou...

OHRIA Responds To Dwight Duncan Costing Ontario 60,000 Jobs

The Government of Ontario's plan to cancel the OLG Slots at Racetrack Program will prove costly, the President of the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association (OHRIA) is warning

OLG, Liberals Green Light Plan To End Slots At Racetracks Partnership

At a press conference on Monday, March 12, OLG Chair Paul Godfrey and Minister of Finance Dwight Duncan announced the release of a report that indicates the province's slots at racetracks program will...

Information Meeting For Horsemen Set

Central Ontario Standardbred Association (COSA) has scheduled an information meeting for all horsepeople on Monday, March 12, at Woodbine Racetrack

Liberals Words Already Affecting Economy Negatively

An official with Clinton Raceway has announced that a scheduled $3-million expansion to the track's grandstand is now on hold. She also noted that a $750,000 infusion of capital to an important local ...

MPP Miller Officially Backs Racing

On Thursday, March 8, at Queen's Park, Ontario MPP Paul Miller, a member of the New Democratic Party of Ontario, officially threw his support behind the Ontario horse-racing industry, which has found ...

OHRIA To Duncan: Check Your Facts

Finance Minister Dwight Duncan provided an emailed statement to the Windsor Star on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, regarding the OLG Slots at Racetrack program that contained a number of inaccurate stateme...