Joe Thomson

Winbak's Joe Thomson To Be Honoured

December 24, 2012

The World Trade Center Institute Awards’ Review Committee has selected Joe Thomson, owner of Winbak Farm, to be one of six awarded with Maryland’s 17th Annual International Leadership Award on March 6...

Monticello USHWA Awards Dinner Recap

November 20, 2012

For the first time in 54 years of presenting awards banquets, the Monticello-Goshen Chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association held its annual affair in Middletown, New York at The Fount...

Bergstein-Proximity Award Finalists

November 13, 2012

John Campbell, the Hall of Fame horseman and all-time leading money-winning driver, will be joined by Joe Thomson, squire of Winbak Farms, which has bred three recent Harness Horses of the Year, as fi...

USHWA To Honour Joe Thomson

Joe Thomson, the squire of Winbak Farm, has emerged as one of the leading figures in the standardbred sport.

Major Media Attention For Ontario Racing

Continuing to attract major attention in the mainstream media, the crisis in Ontario's horse-racing industry was front and centre this past weekend. The Toronto Star trotted out a lengthy feature, wit...

OHRIA Issues Open Letter To Premier McGuinty On Foreign Investment

The letter below was sent on Friday (May 11) afternoon from Sue Leslie, President of the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association to the Premier of Ontario responding to a series of inaccurate commen...

UPDATED: Thomson Questions Liberal Strategy, Duncan Issues Reply

After being compared to jailed investor Bernie Madoff in Thursday's (May 10) Guelph Mercury, Ontario Finance Minister and Deputy Premier Dwight Duncan issued a public reply

Vintage Master To Winbak Of Canada

December 29, 2011

World Champion and double-millionaire Vintage Master p,2,1:57.4; 3,1:49.2f; 4,1:48.1f ($2,119,713), by Western Ideal and from Arts Vintage (by Artsplace), will be retired from racing and will stand in...

Broad Bahn To Winbak NY

November 10, 2011

Winbak Farm of New York is proud to welcome Broad Bahn, winner of the 2011 Hambletonian

Badlands Nitro To Winbak

November 09, 2011

On Wednesday, November 9, John Celii and George Teague, Jr. announced that they have agreed to return Badlands Nitro p,3, 1:50f to Joe and JoAnn Thomson’s Winbak Farm of New York for the 2012 breeding...

More On Shadow Play Deal

January 12, 2010

Just days after the move that brought 2008 Hambletonian winner Deweycheatumnhowe to Ontario, the Ontario Sires Stakes program received another feather in its cap when 2008 Little Brown Jug winner Shad...

Margies Melody Passes At Age 33

August 26, 2009

Margies Melody, dam of World Champion multi-millionaire Nihilator, who is known as one of the greatest pacers the sport of harness racing has ever seen, passed away this morning at the age of 33