Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association

Hudak Disagrees With OLG's Path

Over the past few months, numerous members of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party have vocally opposed the Liberal government's decision to end the slots-at-racetracks program in 2013.

Confimed: Kawartha To Cease Racing In 2013 If No Supplemental Funding Plan In Place

It has been confirmed that live racing at Fraserville, Ont.'s Kawartha Downs, near Peterborough, will cease in 2013 if some sort of financial agreement is not reached.

McGuinty Liberals Abandon Equine Industry

In a strongly worded letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty, Perth-Wellington MPP Randy Pettapiece is calling on the Liberal government to reconsider its surprise cancellation of the Slots at Racetracks pr...

Mississauga Mayor Scoffs At Casino Talk; OLG Eyeing Woodbine?

The Ontario Liberal Government's desires to plop a major casino down in the Greater Toronto Area are getting tougher and tougher as the days go by. Staunch Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion is the lat...

Ontario Liberals Announce $50 Million Transitional Fund For Horse Racing; OHRIA Responds

A release from the Liberal government on Thursday officially announced the transitional fund established to "help the horse racing industry transition from the Slots at Racetracks program to a more su...

Liberals Grilled After Fort Erie To Close On Their Watch

The news of the announced closure of the 115-year-old Fort Erie Race Track was still reverberating Wednesday, June 6 in the Provincial Legislature when MPP Monte McNaughton took aim at the Ontario Lib...

Liberals Remain Vague; Transitional Funding "Coming Soon"

On Tuesday, June 5 in the Ontario Legislature, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan and Agricultural Minister Ted McMeekin were grilled over the lack of consultation with the provincial horse-racing industr...

Liberals Kibosh Ontario Place As Possible Casino Location

In a significant decision which could prove to be very favourable for the provincial horse-racing industry, the Ontario Liberal Government announced on Wednesday, June 6 that it has scrapped any plans...

Will Sadinsky's Plan Be Endorsed?

"Right now we're in the 12th round and we're on one knee. We as an industry, hopefully, have matured to the point where we will accept change."

Lower Percentage Of Gaming Revenues For Province Of Ontario?

The Ontario Liberal Government has annually raked in a cool $1.1-billion in revenue via the soon-to-be-scrapped slots-at-racetracks program. Apparently, according to an Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp...

Mayors Skeptical Of OLG-Liberal Desires

Mayors of various Ontario municipalities are coming out of the woodwork and expressing disinterest regarding the idea of casino gaming coming to their jurisdictions.

Liberal MPP Blasts Duncan, McGuinty In Legislature Over Gaming

A reported divide within the Ontario Liberal Government manifested itself today in the Provincial Legislature when Liberal MPP Mike Colle (Eglinton-Lawrence) proclaimed that he does not support his pa...