Ontario Sires Stakes

Ontario Sires Stakes Sustaining Payments Due

If you intend to race your two-year-old in the 2023 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) program, please submit your sustaining payment by mail, postdated no later than March 15, 2023, or through the OSS online...

Ontario Sires Stakes Schedule Announced

February 14, 2023

Ontario harness racing fans will ring in the summer stakes season with a double dose of Ontario Sires Stakes and Prospect Series action on the Victoria Day weekend.

Ontario Sires Stakes Payments Due Feb. 15

January 30, 2023

Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) three-year-old sustaining payments are due Feb. 15, 2023.

OSS Stallion Registration Open For 2023 Season

December 05, 2022

Stallion registration with the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) program for the 2023 breeding year is now open. The deadline for registration is Jan. 16, 2023.

Resolve To Win wins in the OSS for trainer John Bax and driver James MacDonald

OSS Titles To Bax, MacDonald

December 02, 2022

Trainer John Bax and driver James MacDonald claimed the top spots in the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) over the 2022 season, taking home the 2022 Johnston Cup and Lampman Cup titles as the leading OSS tr...

Horse racing, horses heading behind the starting gate

SIP Committee Seeks Input On OSS Program

November 03, 2022

Ontario Racing’s Standardbred Improvement Program (SIP) committee is dedicated to ensuring the SIP and its flagship Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) remain industry leading programs. In the spirit of that ...

Silver Label Bests Stablemate In Super Final Revenge

October 16, 2022

In the $225,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Super Final for three-year-old pacing fillies on Saturday night (Oct. 15) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, Silver Label used a strong final quarter to surge to victo...

Cold Creek Queso Caps Hot End To OSS Season

October 16, 2022

Standardbred owner Dan Walker of Cold Creek Standardbred in Grafton, Ont. got a phone call from his trainer, Murray Brethour of Sunderland, Ont., about a week after sending Brethour one of the farm’s ...

Stockade Seelster Perfect In OSS Sweep

October 15, 2022

Stockade Seelster stamped himself as one of the best two-year-old pacing colts in the history of the Ontario Sires Stakes with another impressive performance in Saturday's $225,000 Gold Super Final at...

Christoforou Clan Collects OSS Upset With Safe Conduct

October 15, 2022

Safe Conduct, close in many of his recent Ontario Sire Stakes (OSS) contests, put it all together at exactly the right moment when closing strongly to win the $225,000 Ontario Sire Stakes Super Final ...

Mischevious Rose Conquers Adare Castle In Super Final

October 15, 2022

The third race of the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Super Final saw the second straight upset of the night on Saturday (Oct. 15) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, with Mischevious Rose besting heavily favour...

DWs Point Man Lands Final-Stride OSS Blow

October 15, 2022

The second Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Super Final event of the Woodbine Mohawk Park Saturday night (Oct. 15) card was a war of the noses, as a pair of two-year-old trotting males were nearly inse...