As Ontario’s government deals with a growing deficit, statistics provided by the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association illustrates that racing’s partnership with the province delivers value for money.
OLG Slots at Racetrack Program – Value for Money
The OLG Slots at Racetrack Program is a commercial contract between the Government of Ontario, through Ontario Lottery and Gaming, [...]

“DO NOT FIX WHAT IS NOT BROKEN”
February 24, 2012
Stratford, ON – The Canadian Farm Builders’ Association supports the continued business partnership arrangements between the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission (OLG) and the horse racing industry in Ontario.
Recent comments made by Dwight Duncan, Ontario Minister of Finance, have suggested that the Liberal government would review the [...]

The Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association is deeply disappointed with the Ontario Liberal Party’s misleading portrayal of the OLG Slots at Racetrack Program. The OLG Slots at Racetrack Program is not a ’secret subsidy’ that benefits ‘a few wealthy racetrack owners’ as the Liberals falsely claim. It is actually the largest source of revenue for [...]

Finance Minister Dwight Duncan has been falsely referring to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Slots at Racetrack revenue sharing program as a subsidy. His claim is that the Government has been providing a $345 million dollar annual subsidy to Ontario’s Horse Racing Industry. In a recent fundraising email to supporters, the Ontario Liberal Party suggested [...]

A new petition has been created with the aim of sending 50,000 signatures to Queen’s Park. As this story was being posted there were over 3,400 signatures and rising. Let’s help get these numbers up. Here is the link to the petition website and below is the body of the petition text.
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/savehorseracing

Ontario’s Horse Racing Industry employs [...]

A Partnership That Works!
Courtesy of http://www.ohria.com/
In the late 1990’s and throughout the past decade, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (now the OLG) entered into a revenue sharing agreement with racetrack operators and host municipalities in Ontario to allow the placement of slot machines at racetracks.
The racetracks provided the OLG with access to their existing [...]

Over the next few weeks the Ontario Equestrian Federation (OEF) will be packing up the office and moving a short distance down the street to its new location.  Their phone numbers, staff extensions, fax numbers and email addresses will remain the same, but on March 1st you will be able to find them at:
1 West [...]

Courtesy of Standardbred Canada – www.standardbredcanada.ca
Following the recent release of the Drummond Report, and recommendations that would damage Ontario’s horse racing industry, Standardbred Canada is pleased that the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, Canada’s largest voluntary farm organization, is in strong support of the men and women of Ontario horse racing.
“Horse racing is a vital part [...]