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Daughter Of Omaha Beach Surfs Home A Debut Winner At Del Mar

1st-Del Mar, $61,500, Msw, 11-26, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 1:16.13, ft, 3 3/4 lengths. KOPION (f, 2, Omaha Beach–Galloping Ami {Outstanding Broodmare-Can}, by Victory Gallop) did not disappoint her backers who made her the 1-5 favorite for this debut. The $270,000 Keeneland September buy trailed towards the rear of the field as a pair showed […]

Tall Oaks, 2 Points Ranch Venture Brings Ami’s Holiday to Manitoba

Canadian classic winner AMI’S HOLIDAY, among the leading sires in Canada with just four crops of racing age, will stand the 2024 breeding season at 2 Points Ranch near Winnipeg, Manitoba in partnership with owner and breeder Ivan Dalos, who has stood the son of Harlan’s Holiday at Colebrook Farms Ontario. Colleen Dalos, president of […]

Amis Gizmo Sires First BT Winner with Zippy Gizmo

Zippy Gizmo won the Bull Page Stakes Sept. 24 at Woodbine and gave his sire, Amis Gizmo, his first blacktype stakes winner. The 2-year-old chestnut won his second career race in four starts by edging rival Brave Dancer by a neck in 1:22.77 on the turf. It was a come-from-behind triumph that saw Zippy Gizmo running last in the field […]

Bossy Holiday Victorious in Ontario Sire Heritage Series

The Ontario Sire Heritage Series concluded last Friday at Woodbine Racetrack, with Bossy Holiday winning the colts and geldings division and $20,000 in bonus money. A Talk Oaks Farm homebred, his performance in the first three legs had secured his position atop point standings heading into the $100,000 Lake Ontario Final over a mile and […]

Tall Oaks Farm Champion Avie’s Flatter Retired to Stud in Ontario

TORONTO, October 14, 2022 – Avie’s Flatter, 2018 champion two-year-old, and earner of over $1 million in his career, is retiring from racing to stand stud at Colebrook Farms. The Tall Oaks Farm homebred won the Cup and Saucer and Coronation Futurity at Woodbine Racetrack, two of Canada’s most prestigious juvenile races, during his 2018 Sovereign […]

E. P. Taylor Award of Merit: IVAN DALOS

Ivan came to Canada from Hungary around the same time E.P. Taylor opened Woodbine racetrack in 1956 and put together a successful flooring and construction business. Once the horse racing bug took hold it did not take long for one of the first horses bred by Ivan to make news on an international stage. Victory […]