Ontario Racing

Horsepeople Invited To County Meeting

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

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

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...

UPDATED: Thomson Questions Liberal Strategy, Duncan Issues Reply

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

"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"

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...

Baymount Re-Evaluating Business Plans

Baymount Incorporated, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Belleville Racetrack Development Corporation (BRDC), has received a formal notice of termination of its Site Holder Agreement -- originally e...