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 […]
Ivan Dalos’ homebred 2-year-old filly Collecting Flatter got back to her winning ways with a front-running victory in the $125,000 Glorious Song S. Nov. 5 at Woodbine…
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 […]
Saturday’s $125,000 My Dear S. at Woodbine turned out to be a match race between a pair of Tall Oaks homebred fillies, with Collecting Flatter getting the better of Speedy River…
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 […]
The 2021 season at the 47th Annual Sovereign Awards, hosted by The Jockey Club of Canada on April 14 just outside of Toronto, were a very special night for Tall Oaks owner Ivan Dalos…
Tall Oaks Farm was listed as a finalist in four categories for the 2021 Sovereign Awards when the Jockey Club of Canada recently announced the nominees…
The Horse Racing Appeal Panel, chaired by Stanley Sadinsky, has granted Ivan Dalos’s appeal to have H C Holiday’s placing and purse reinstated. The horse won a Maiden Optional Claiming race last June with a purse of $64,300 but was subsequently disqualified when it was discovered that his enrollment in the Lasix program had not […]
The Jockey Club of Canada is pleased to announce that Ivan Dalos will be presented with the E. P. Taylor Award of Merit during the 47th Annual Sovereign Awards Ceremony on the evening of Thursday, April 14, 2022 in Vaughan, Ontario. Selected unanimously by the Jockey Club of Canada’s Stewards, the E. P. Taylor Award […]
For the first time in three years, the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame will hold its online stallion service auction, and Tall Oaks Farm is honoured to offer breedings to its stallions Amis Gizmo, Ami’s Holiday and Gamble’s Exchange…