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PRESIDENT
Bob Broadstock 18101 Cedardale Road, Nestleton, Ontario L0B 1L0 (905) 986-0044 email:
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Ice Fishn’s featured race worth $22,000
VICE-PRESIDENT
Erik Lehtinen RR #2, Uxbridge, ON L9P 1R2 (905) 852-5245
Greg Watson 785 Hwy 7A, Bethany, ON L0A 1A0 (705) 277-0248
Chantelle Bourgeois - 416-985-7046
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Ralph Pearson - 905-243-4501
ralphpearson@bellnet.ca
Dr. Gayle Sommer P.O. Box 91, Leaskdale, ON L0C 1C0 (647) 999-6554
Country Boy 123 winner of the 2017 All Canadian Classic Ajax Downs
Stephanie Keeble and her filly Ice Fishn by New Image Media) Ice-Fishin wins Monday’s race
tario at Greg and Sue Watson’s Full Circle Racing and is now owned by Sue’s daugh- ter Stephanie Keeble. Greg Watson trains and Cory Spataro of Innisfil rode the win- ner.
Ice Fishn has won close to $70,000 in
battled hard to edge last year’s Champion Two-Year-Old Colt Home to Vegas to win by a neck. Ice Fishn was foaled in Bethany, On-
By Jennifer Morrison AJAX DOWNS – September 25, 2017 – On a sizzling hot afternoon at Ajax Downs, the filly Ice Fishn cooled her rivals with a victory in Monday’s featured race worth $22,000. The grey Ontario-bred Quarter Horse
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Awards Banquet on Saturday February 17, 2018 at the beautiful facility, Ajax Conven- tion Centre. Cocktails are at 6pm and din- ner will be at 7pm. Tickets are $25 each (includes HST). The QROOI is very ex- cited to have ‘Two For the Show’ DJ our Awards Banquet and the lovely Jennifer Morrison will be our MC. Please come join us and help us to celebrate our 2017 Cham- pions! Please contact Monique at the office to
QROOI 2017 Awards Banquet The QROOI will host their 2017
Ramiro Castillo had one victory on the day to bring his total to 33 wins. Tony Phillips and Cassandra Jeschke also had a win apiece on Monday and are chasing Castillo with 25 and 24 wins respectively. For more information check out
he embraced Keeble after Ice Fishn’s big victory. In the Ajax Down’s jockey race,
two winners on the afternoon, connecting also with Iconic Shift in a $16,000 al- lowance race earlier in the day. “Heck of a day,” said Greg Watson as
her 15 races with four victories. Both Greg Watson and Spataro had
venge of sorts for Country Boy 123, who had his first loss this season when sur- prised by former Horse of the year One Famous Glass in the Bank of America Challenge on Sept. 3. One Famous Glass ral-
lied for second on Monday
2016 Horse of the Year, flaunted his championship form with a brilliant win in the $41,400 All Canadian Classic, defeating a stellar group of older horses. The big dark bay gelding, ridden by Innisfil’s Cory Spataro for owner Ruth Barbour, raced to a one-length victory in the 350-yard stakes for his 10th career win. The victory was a re-
and a budding star stole the afternoon at Ajax Downs on Monday on the biggest day of racing this season at Canada’s major Quarter Horse track. Country Boy 123, the
By Jennifer Morrison. AJAX DOWNS – Septem- ber 19, 2017 – A reigning Champion
Bryanne Sheppard 749 Waite Road, Pontypool, ON L0A 1K0
and his wife Carol and daughter-in-law Jaime may own perhaps the most tal- ented 2-year-old Quarter Horse in the land in Had to Be Ivory, winner of one of the day’s three Trial events for the upcoming Alex
and both horses are trained by Bryn Robertson. Meanwhile, Robertson
tario-bred, won his 400-yard Trial for the Oct. 9 Futurity final in a scintillating time of 19.940, just missing the 11-year-old track record by .50 of a second. The tall gelding’s speed index of 101 is a mark unheard of for a 2- year-old in Canada.
Picov Memorial Futurity. Had to Be Ivory, an On-
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race card at Ajax on Mon- day topped $135,000, a record for the season. For more information, out www.ajax-
Horse-Canada.com Had To Be Ivory and Country Boy 123
By Jennifer Morrison. Had to Be Ivory is the real deal; Country Boy 123 keeps his crown
purchase your tickets. A block of hotel rooms have been reserved at Ajax Hilton Garden Inn Hotel and the Homewood Suites Ajax. If you would like a room for that evening please speak with Monique or contact the hotels directly. Ajax Hilton Gar- den Inn can be reached at (905) 686-9400 and Homewood Suites can be reached at (905) 686-5969. Please use the QROOI code when booking your room for a cheaper rate. Courtesy of
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Ramiro Castillo is one of Canada’s top horsemen
By Jennifer Morrison. AJAX DOWNS, September 11, 2017 – – From Alberta to Fort Erie to Ajax Downs, jockey Ramiro Castillo is one of Canada’s top horsemen. Castillo, won four races on the seven-race card at Ajax Downs on Monday September 11 to increase his lead as top rider at Canada’s premier Quarter Horse track. The personable 39-year-old has 31 vic-
tories at Ajax to lead a competitive group of riders but his exploits do not stop there.
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ing weeks at Ajax Downs as the track offers plenty of stakes action through the final seven Monday cards of racing. For more information please check out
Castillo has also won races recently at Northlands Park in Edmonton and recently rode a Thoroughbred winner for his wife Angelle Carter at Fort Erie racetrack. And Castillo will be busy in the com-
AJAX DOWNS, October 9, 2017 – A new champion was crowned and a reigning champion kept his title on an incredible day of Quarter Horse racing at Ajax Downs on holiday Monday, Octo- ber 9.
owned and bred by Carol and Jaime Robertson and trained by Carol’s husband Bryn, got in gear late in the 400-yard dash to win over the speedy filly A J Chick in 15 over a track listed as ‘heavy’. The Ontario bred posted an impressive 101- speed index for his time of 19.940. Ridden by Tony ‘TP’
Phillips, Had to Be Ivory will now enjoy a winter rest at the Robertson’s HiIlerin
one of the most exciting young horses to be seen at Ajax in almost a decade, kept his unbeaten record un- blemished with a three- quarter length score in the $119,750 Alex Picov Me- morial Futurity, the richest race for Quarter Horses in Canada. The giant 2-year-old,
HAD TO BE IVORY,
Wagering on a huge 11-
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BOY 123, last year’s Horse of the Year, overcame a slow start, some early bumping and stuck his neck out to win the $92,676 Alex Picov Memorial Champi- onship, solidifying his posi- tion as the top older horse. The 4-year-old gelding, owned by Ruth Barbour and also trained by Bryn Robert- son, was ridden to the nail- biting win by Cory Spataro
Farm in Hillsburgh, ON be- fore preparing for his 3- year-old season. Earlier, COUNTRY
have one more race in 2017 as he will start in the $75,000 (US)
Indiana
sharp:21.710 for a 102- speed index. Country Boy 123 will
feated longshot Albertt while stablemate One Fa- mous Glass, who surprised the champ in the Bank of American Challenge, did not handle the greasy track and finished sixth. Country Boy 123’s winning time for 440-yards
was a
of Innisfil, ON. Country Boy 123 de-
Downs also featured a very popular pumpkin giveaway in which more than 100 pumpkins flew off the shelves and were decorated by kids in attendance at the track. Wagering on the 10- race card bettered the same Holiday Monday card from 2016 by almost 10 percent.
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Championship at Indiana Downs on October 21. The afternoon at Ajax
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