4th February 2025 -In order to start the second half of the century, the Ontario Sires Stakes Stakes Gurtess Racing program will expand to six options for the basic series in 2025, whereby the wallet for each division is increasing to $ 25,000.
With a partnership with the Central Ontario Standardbred Association (COSA) and the Woodbine Mohawk Park, the change in the 2024 season increases by 24 percent.
“We have heard the feedback from owners and coaches that wallets had to be higher in the base,” said Bill O'Donnell, Chairman of the SIP Committee (SIP) and President of Ontario Racing. “And we hope that the additional leg will have a positive effect on the horse population by autumn.”
The six possibilities of the base series are contested in five legs, with one leg numbering two events with “A” and “B”. The five legs will be on Thursday, September 25th for the two-year and Friday, September 26, for the three-year and $ 75,000 at the basic championship on Saturday, September 27th, from $ 25,000 for the Based on $ 25,000. Everything in Woodbine Mohawk Park.
As in the 2024 season, each base champion can enter and move in its respective Super -Finals of the Gold Series if it does not fill up with the gold earners.
In 2025, the five gold series legs divided $ 180,000 by the number of departments or $ 140,000 for a single division, followed by $ 300,000 superfinals in the Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday, October 10th, for the two-year and Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, October 11th for the three -year -olds. The gold series mid-season frost and finale will not return in 2025.
The prospect series will again consist of eight options that have been announced in five legs, with departments receiving a wallet of 8,000 US dollars. The final of the Prospect series will be increased to $ 20,000 and on Friday, October 3, for three years and Tuesday, October 7th for two-year-olds, both on Raceway in Western Fair District.
“The creation of the budget was again a challenge this year,” said O'Donnell. “The bet of ontarians on the horse race delivers about 60 percent of the financing of the OSS and has decreased by almost 100 million US dollars in the past two years.”
Fewer departments of the grass root series and the gold series in the middle of the season with the budget with the budget with an increasing number of individual department. Cosa and Woodbine Mohawk Park have also committed to finance half of the wallet for the additional options for the grass root series.
“A powerful OSS program is vital for the race in Ontario,” said O'Donnell. “We all strive to ensure that it is still one of the best programs for the Sires Stakes.”
For complete details, visit the Ontario Sires Stakes website.
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