Ontario Racing

This past Saturday evening, fans, horsemen, track operators and politicians alike each took time to reflect on Sudbury Downs, as the raceway's November 24 card could prove be the last ever at the nort...

During a recent interview, Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak has stated that he is for racetrack gaming expansion instead of new casinos, and that he supports a revenue sharing arrange...

Mythic Art and trainer-driver Don Rankin Jr. closed out the final card of live racing at Sudbury Downs with a wire-to-wire victory in the 10th race on a snowy Saturday evening in Chelmsford, Ont.

On Friday Premier Dalton McGuinty announced his recommendation that Finance Minister Dwight Duncan also add the role of Minister of Government Services, the ministry that holds the Ontario Racing Comm...

Leading up to what track operators have alluded to as being the final evening of live harness racing at Sudbury Downs, local Councillor Claude Berthiaume has stepped up his call for some sanity in the...

"The men and women who are elected in this community should be giving direction to the unelected people who they've put in jobs to follow their public-policy direction. And, it seems to me that Paul (...

Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod has gone on record stating that her party is committed to keeping the Slots-At-Racetracks program if they win the next election, according to a report in the Ottawa Su...

The Saturday edition of the Toronto Star profiles two Ontario owners adversely affected by the government's decision to cut the slots-at-racetracks program in 2013.

While speaking to the Canadian Club of Toronto on Tuesday, Rod Phillips, President and CEO of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, spoke glowingly about the OLG’s Modernization plan. In doing s...

The Central Ontario Standardbred Association (COSA) issued a release Friday, Nov. 9 on the Standardbred stakeholder meetings held earlier this week regarding the OMAFRA Panel Report.