Warming up your horse before riding is essential for optimizing their performance and preventing injury. A thoughtful warm-up routine improves circulation, enhances flexibility, and primes the horse’s muscles and joints for the work ahead.
Uxbridge, Ontario, August 25, 2025 – Canadian three-day event rider Holly Jacks captured top honors on August 16 in the $20,000 Grand Prix at the Ten Sixty Stables Gold Competition. Riding Josephine, her 2022 Royal Winter Fair Indoor Eventing Challenge champion, Jacks has successfully embraced the show jumping world this summer with a string of multi-talented horses.
AJAX DOWNS, SEPTEMBER 2, 2025 - PRETTY RUNAWAY seems to know when the big money is on the line as the tough, 8-year-old mare broke through for a long-awaited win in the Ontario Sires Stakes Maturity at Ajax Downs on Aug. 30.
AJAX DOWNS, AUGUST 29, 2025 - The 13th running of the ONTARIO SIRES STAKES MATURITY headlines a special Labour Day weekend Sunday at the Quarter Horse races at Ajax Downs. The $39,330 Maturity at 330 yards is race 6 on August 31, and first race post time is 12:55 p.m.
Ontario students, are you working on your stories, poems and sketches for the Youth Literary Derby and / or Youth Art Derby? Just a reminder that the deadline for these contests, presented by the Bill Galvin Racing Alliance’s (BGRA) is August. 31, 2025.
August 15 – 17, 2025, was the last J&J Reining show, we don’t know if that’s forever or just for now but either way – we need a break! We’ve learned an awful lot since we started in 2021 and have crafted and hosted nine shows. We put everything in to the shows – the planning would start each January, and we wouldn’t finish working on the show until September. We can’t thank our sponsors, volunteers, supporters, competitors, show staff enough – without them our dreams would have remained just...
GRASSIE, ON - [August 11, 2025] -Two long-standing traditions in Ontario agriculture recently came together in celebration as Jeff Due, the current Grape King proudly welcomed Taylor Legge, the reigning Ontario Queen of the Furrow to the heart of Niagara's wine country.
AJAX DOWNS, AUGUST 24, 2025 - Carrying on a tradition in its 14th year, Ajax Downs hosted another successful FAMILY FUN DAY in support of the Ajax Pickering Hospital at the races on Sunday, August 24.
Ottawa, Ontario – It was Adrienne Sternlicht’s day at the RBC Ottawa International show jumping tournament at Wesley Clover Parks in Ottawa, ON. Having won the US $35,000 Grand Prix CSI2*, presented by Mark Motors Group, in the morning, Sternlicht returned to the grass field to claim victory in the grand finale, the US $340,000 Grand Prix CSI5*, presented by RBC.
AJAX DOWNS, AUGUST 21, 2025 - Ajax Downs' popular FAMILY FUN DAY is back this Sunday, August 24, for kids and families, plus an exciting card of Quarter Horse racing. The events begin at 10 a.m. with the 'Try the Track' for the kids, and throughout the day, there will be games, prizes, treats, Zoo To You, Dan the Music Man, and more. All proceeds go to the Ajax Pickering Hospital (aphfoundation.ca).
