Trot Insider has consolidated all of the releases pertaining to stakes payments and nominations that are due Thursday, March 15. Check back with this note, as it will be updated as releases are received
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This notice may not contain all stakes with payments due on March 15. Please refer to your stakes guide for more information.
Standardbred Canada would like to remind owners/trainers that stakes payments are due on or before Thursday, March 15, 2012.
Stakes payments can be paid with a credit card using SC Stakes Online. A video tutorial is available to help you get started.
Payment information and stake conditions can be viewed on the Online Stakes Guide by clicking here.
A generic stake form can be used to submit payments by mail. It can be located by clicking here.
Three-Year-Old Sustaining Payments
• Canadian Breeders Championship
Two-Year-Old Sustaining Payments
• Atlantic Sires Stakes ($85)
• Bill Quigg ($75)
• Island Breeders Series ($200)
• Atlantic Sires Stakes ($85)
• Joe O'Brien Memorial ($100)
• Lady Slipper Pace/Trot ($100)
• Maritime Breeders ($300)
• Maritimer ($125)
• Nova Scotia Stake ($100)
• Williamson Memorial ($100)
Horsemen paying the Atlantic Sires Stakes sustaining payment must also pay the Atlantic Standardbred Breeders Association membership fee of $45 per-owner per-year. If you have not already paid this fee in 2012, please remit it with your March 15 stakes payments.
Please mail and make cheques payable to:
Standardbred Canada - Stakes Department
2150 Meadowvale Blvd.
Mississauga, ON
L5N 6R6
Envelopes must be clearly post-marked on or before March15 to be accepted, despite inadequacies of the postal system.
For more information, contact Caren Brown-Stockwell, Stakes Coordinator, at 905-858-3060 (Ext. 242) or [email protected].
Sustaining payments of $500 for Ontario-sired two-year-olds that were nominated to the OSS as yearlings in 2011 is quickly approaching. All payments must be received or postmarked by Thursday, March 15, 2012.
Please be aware that envelopes dropped into a mailbox do not always get postmarked that day. We recommend sending payments by courier or registered mail so you will have proof that you sent it and the envelope can be tracked. If not sending by registered mail, please ensure that the envelope has a postmark of March 15th or earlier.
If you did not receive the sustaining notice that was mailed mid-February, a blank form has been posted under the “forms” section on the OSS website or just print your horse’s name and tattoo number on the front of your cheque and mail it to:
Ontario Sires Stakes
10 Carlson Court, Suite 400
Toronto, ON M9W 6L2
The Woodbine Entertainment Group has announced that nominations for its major stakes events, including the $1-million Metro Pace, the $750,000 (guaranteed) Maple Leaf Trot and $830,000 (estimated) Canadian Pacing Derby close Thursday, March 15.
For more information, click here.
The race office at Rideau Carleton Raceway has reminded its horsepeople of payments which are coming due for a pair of the track's major stakes.
For more information, click here.
Sustaining payments for the 68th Little Brown Jug, 43rd Jugette, 61st Old Oaken Bucket and 62nd Buckette are due March 15. These are for foals of 2010 and will be raced in 2013.
Sustaining payments are also due for the 73rd Standardbred two-year-old colt and filly stakes for foals of 2010 to be raced in 2012.
For more information, click here.
The Meadowlands Racetrack has sent out a reminder about stakes nominations which are due Thursday, March 15.
Nominations will be closing for the Spring Survivor Series for three-year-old trotters and pacers (non-winners of two races or $30,000 in lifetime purse earnings as of March 1) and the Green With Envy and Ima Lula for four-year-old mares.
For stakes applications, click here.
Supplemental and sustaining fees are due on March 15, 2012 for the Anthony Abbatiello New Jersey Classic, Thomas D’Altrui Miss New Jersey and other stakes administered by the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey.
Details and forms are available on the SBOANJ website’s 'Stakes Forms' link. Visit sboanj.com.
Payments, in US funds only, should be made by check or money order payable to SBOANJ, 64 Business Route 33, Manalapan, NJ 07726.
The Pennsylvania Sire Stakes is reminding horsemen that sustaining payments for the program must be postmarked by this Thursday, March 15.
For more information, click here.
Payments to nominate to all stakes serviced by Tioga and Vernon Downs have a closing date of March 15.
The Empire Breeders Classic, Kindergarten Trotting Classic, Artiscape, Bettors Delight, Credit Winner, Muscle Hill and Miss Versatility are all back for 2012 as part of a program estimated to be worth over $2.5 million at the two New York venues.
For more information, click here.
Balmoral and Maywood Park would like to remind horsemen that sustaining and nomination payments are due on March 15 for several big stakes races at both tracks.
At Balmoral Park, nominating payments are due for the two-year-old American Nationals and the two-year-old Hanover Stakes. Nominating payments are also due for the two-year-old Orange & Blue Stakes as well as the Lincoln Land and Lady Lincoln Land Stakes for trotters. Payments are also due for the Southland Festival of Racing stakes that will be contested July 28 through August 4.
More information and nomination forms can be found under the Horsemen’s Information section at balmoralpark.com.
At Maywood Park, nominating payments are due for the Abe Lincoln Stakes for two-year-old pacing colts as well as the Galt Stakes for three-year-old trotters. Those events will be contested on Friday, November 16.
Information and nomination forms for these events can be found under the Horsemen’s Information section at maywoodpark.com.
For any other questions, please contact the race offices at Balmoral Park, (708-672-1414) and/or Maywood Park (708-343-4800).