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Blowe Joining OLG

The Fort Erie Live Racing Consortium has announced that Elissa Blowe is leaving FELRC to assume an important, new role as ‘Manager of Product Development and Marketing – Horse Racing’ for the Ontario ...

$500K Fort Erie Funding In Draft Budget

It has been reported that the Fort Erie Race Track is slated to receive $500,000 in funding from the town in 2015 after council discussed the request from the track’s operator, the Fort Erie Live Raci...

Racing Schedule Changes Approved

January 21, 2015

The Director of the Ontario Racing Commission (ORC) has approved the application for variance to the 2015 race date schedule made by Clinton Raceway Inc. for Clinton Raceway and the application for va...

Racing-Gaming Integration Update

September 26, 2014

"I look forward to the future. I think the right people are sitting at the table to move this forward now, and the cooperation is there."

Province Commits To Fort Erie

September 25, 2014

During a press event on Wednesday, September 24 at the Fort Erie Race Track, Jeff Leal, Ontario’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, stated that the Ontario Government will commit to at least ...

Fort Erie Press Event Wednesday

September 24, 2014

More details regarding the future of Fort Erie Race Track will be announced during a press event today (Wednesday, September 24).

Fort Erie Receives Town Cash

September 19, 2014

The Town of Fort Erie has transferred $500,000 to the operators of live racing at the Fort Erie Race Track. A report states that some local politicians are upset that the Town still had to transfer th...

Fort Erie Race Track Sold

August 13, 2014

According to a report in Wednesday’s Toronto Star, Canada’s famed thoroughbred facility Fort Erie Race Track has been sold.

Thibert: Fort Erie Sale Still Imminent

August 07, 2014

Fort Erie Live Racing Consortium General Manager Jim Thibert has divulged that racetrack operator Delaware North is not the prospective buyer of the Fort Erie Race Track, but he has not offered much e...

Report: Fort Erie Sale Very Close

It has been reported that a sale for Fort Erie's historic thoroughbred facility is expected to be completed as soon as this week.

ORC Approves 2014 Fort Erie Dates

Late on Friday afternoon (May 23), the Ontario Racing Commission issued a pair of releases in regard to 2014 race dates for the Fort Erie Race Track for Thoroughbreds and Ajax Downs for Quarter Horses...

Thibert Optimistic About Fort Erie

January 30, 2014

Jim Thibert, the CEO of the Fort Erie Live Racing Consortium, has said that he is “thinking much more positively than I have in a long time” in regard to the future of the historic Fort Erie Race Trac...

Racing A Mainstream Newsmaker

December 31, 2013

Ontario's horse racing industry and its adjustment to the new reality presented by the Ontario government made headlines throughout the year -- not just on Standardbred Canada's homepage, but in mains...