Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association

OHRIA Responds To Dwight Duncan Costing Ontario 60,000 Jobs

The Government of Ontario's plan to cancel the OLG Slots at Racetrack Program will prove costly, the President of the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association (OHRIA) is warning

OLG, Liberals Green Light Plan To End Slots At Racetracks Partnership

At a press conference on Monday, March 12, OLG Chair Paul Godfrey and Minister of Finance Dwight Duncan announced the release of a report that indicates the province's slots at racetracks program will...

Information Meeting For Horsemen Set

Central Ontario Standardbred Association (COSA) has scheduled an information meeting for all horsepeople on Monday, March 12, at Woodbine Racetrack

Liberals Words Already Affecting Economy Negatively

An official with Clinton Raceway has announced that a scheduled $3-million expansion to the track's grandstand is now on hold. She also noted that a $750,000 infusion of capital to an important local ...

MPP Miller Officially Backs Racing

On Thursday, March 8, at Queen's Park, Ontario MPP Paul Miller, a member of the New Democratic Party of Ontario, officially threw his support behind the Ontario horse-racing industry, which has found ...

OHRIA To Duncan: Check Your Facts

Finance Minister Dwight Duncan provided an emailed statement to the Windsor Star on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, regarding the OLG Slots at Racetrack program that contained a number of inaccurate stateme...

MPPs Home Constituency Week March 12-16

March 12 to March 16 is Constituency Week, meaning that MPPs will be in their home ridings to meet with constituents. All members of the horse racing community in Ontario are being reminded the import...

O'Toole Sounds Off In Support Of Racing

"Anyone familiar with the horse farms of Durham Riding can see first-hand how the (slots-at-racetracks) partnership revenue is spent by the horse racing community. The money certainly doesn’t go to ma...

Liberals Drive-On With Misinformation

In the face of logic and cold, hard facts, Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan continues to publicly misconstrue the province's bilateral, commercial contract otherwise known as the slots-at-racetr...

Racing Takes The High Road

The Ontario horse-racing industry has been forced to defend itself after an unprovoked attack by the province's Liberal Government. Although, instead of utilizing disingenuous radio ads, or intentiona...

OHRIA Launches value4money.ca

OHRIA's value4money.ca website is now launched, containing factual information about the OLG Slots at Racetrack Program in addition to sharing the industry's economic impact and importance to Ontario'...

OHRIA Making Strides With Dialogue, Two-Tiered Campaign

In a release issued today (Thursday), the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association (OHRIA) reiterated that a strong, unified message is being sent to the Ontario Government and the public to reinforc...