Holmes: Woodbine Could Close If GTA Casino Goes Elsewhere May 14, 2012 "If the slots were removed from Woodbine you would see the end of Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto."
Major Media Attention For Ontario Racing May 14, 2012 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...
Horsepeople Invited To County Meeting May 11, 2012 Chris White, the Warden of Wellington County and chair of the Rural Mayors of Ontario committee, will be hosting a general meeting on Tuesday, May 29 to hear about impacts to the horse racing communit...
OHRIA Issues Open Letter To Premier McGuinty On Foreign Investment May 11, 2012 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...
GCGC Announces First-Quarter Results May 11, 2012 On Wednesday, May 9, the Great Canadian Gaming Corp., owner operator of Flamboro Downs, Georgian Downs and Fraser Downs, announced an opening-quarter net loss of $31.9-million in spite of a 12 per cen...
Ont. Tracks Get Electronic Poker Tables May 10, 2012 PokerTek Inc., a company which develops and markets electronic table games for the gaming industry, announced on Thursday, May 10 that it has reached an agreement with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming C...
UPDATED: Thomson Questions Liberal Strategy, Duncan Issues Reply May 10, 2012 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
Caesars Windsor Laying Off Employees May 09, 2012 "I'll tell you what's disappointing: you got Dalton McGuinty's group and Dwight Duncan suggesting that when Windsor Raceway shut down, most of these individuals (customers) would go and spend their mo...
"We Don't Want To Close" May 09, 2012 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 May 09, 2012 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? May 08, 2012 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!' May 08, 2012 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...
