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"We Don't Want To Close"

After trying to increase exposure to the product by attracting "synergy-type businesses", Hiawatha Horse Park's owner Jim Henderson is now forced back to the drawing board after being blindsided by th...

Town Of Innisfil Backs Horse Racing Industry

The Town of Innisfil has passed a resolution asking the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. to keep slot machines at Georgian Downs. Also, it has been reported that the town has also recommended that the...

Do Liberals Understand Subsidies?

For months, the Liberal government has referred to Ontario horse racing's share of the slots-at-racetracks partnership as a "subsidy". One MPP, who is featured in the May issue of Trot Magazine, wonde...

City Offers Update On 'Woodbine Live!'

The Woodbine Entertainment Group's planned expansion for Woodbine Racetrack, Woodbine Live!, has drawn the attention of multiple mainstream media publications after an update from a Toronto City Manag...

OLG Meets With Racing

The Ontario Harness Horse Association (OHHA), which represents the majority of Standardbred horsepeople in Ontario, met with Mr. Paul Godfrey, Chair of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG)...

Value Of Ontario Horse Racing

The Ontario Horse Racing Industry is part of a highly competitive global market. The industry contributes 60,000 jobs, $1.1 billion to the provincial government and $2 billion in recurring expenditure...

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Windsor To Cease All Operations August 31

On Friday, May 4, officials from Windsor Raceway announced via release that they are expecting for all operations at the track to cease August 31, 2012

Bill C76 Passes Second Reading

On Thursday, May 3 in the Ontario legislature, MPP Monte McNaughton’s private members’ bill C76 passed with a vote of 57-19

T-Bred Concern Over Liberals' Decision

One of Woodbine's top thoroughbred trainers, Mark Casse, is down in Louisville keeping a watchful eye over his Kentucky Derby charge, Prospective, as the hours tick down to Saturday's 138th running of...

Premier McGuinty, Are You Listening?

Members of Ontario's horse racing industry ask Premier Dalton McGuinty what the future holds for their industry if the Slots at Racetrack partnership is ended

Fort Erie Officials Meet With OLG

Officials with the Fort Erie Live Racing Consortium sat down with officials from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. on Tuesday, May 1, but it has been reported that no business plan was presented in...

OHRIA, WEG Meet With MPPs

The evening of Monday, April 30, OHRIA and Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) co-sponsored an Industry Information Reception at Queen's Park