AJAX DOWNS JUNE 26, 2025 - The 3-year-old filly ANNIES BEST CARD picked a good time to win for the first time in her young career as she took the $31,050 Unclassified Stakes at Ajax Downs on June 25.
AJAX DOWNS, JUNE 25 2025 - Orphaned at just nine days old and a tornado survivor, SW THE LION KING roars into the final of the $31,050 Unclassified Stakes at Ajax Downs on June 25 as one of the favourites. A field of 10 Quarter Horses will race 330 yards in the Unclassified, which was introduced to the Ajax Downs stakes schedule two years ago for horses just below the top stakes category.
AJAX DOWNS, JUNE 15, 2025 - Father's Day at Ajax Downs had a little bit of everything for the large crowd that crammed the track for an eight-race card on a warm, early summer afternoon. The highlight of the day was jockey BRIAN BELL's 800th career victory which came in the last race of the day aboard the stakes winning stallion MARYLAND MAGIC, owned by Milena Kwiecien and trained by Jason Pascoe.
AJAX DOWNS, FRIDAY JUNE 13, 2025 - Ajax Downs' first special Sunday of Quarter Horse racing is Father's Day, June 15, with prizes, giveaways and pizza, an exciting eight-race card and Canada's winningest Quarter Horse jockey BRIAN BELL on his quest for 800 winning rides. First race post time this Sunday is 12:55 p.m. and the forecast is for a picture-perfect early summer afternoon.
AJAX DOWNS, JUNE 12, 2025 - There seems to be no stopping the fast filly HAD TO BE FABULOUS as Carol and Jaime Robertson's 3-year-old coasted to her sixth consecutive win at Ajax Downs on June 11, taking the fastest of two Trials for the $55,000 Ontario Bred Derby.
AJAX DOWNS, JUNE 10, 2025 - Ajax Downs kicks off an exciting week with two days of Quarter Horse racing on Wednesday, June 11 followed by a special Father's Day event on Sunday, June 15.
AJAX DOWNS, JUNE 3, 2025 - Two Trials for the $30,000 Unclassified Stakes headline the Wednesday, June 4 Quarter Horse card of racing at Ajax Downs. Summer-like weather is expected and the seven-race card gets underway at 1:45 p.m.
AJAX DOWNS, MAY 29, 2025 - The queen of the BATTLE OF THE BREEDS races, JESS A DEAL, has won another race against her Thoroughbred counterparts. The stocky 9-year-old mare, owned by Marie Broadstock and Picov Cattle Company, held off Bruno Schickedanz's Determined Love to win the first Battle of the Breeds race of 2025 on May 28.
AJAX DOWNS, MAY 27, 2025 - Come out to the Quarter Horse races early on Wednesday, May 28 to catch the return of the popular Battle of the Breeds at Ajax Downs. The first race on Wednesday, with a post time of 1:45 p.m., matches three Quarter horses against two Thoroughbreds at 770-yards, around a turn.
The journey to the racetrack begins at the breeding farm and for Standardbred owner-breeder Tom Rankin, the entire breeding process fuels his passion for harness racing.
