Page 15 - May 2007 The Game

Canada’s Thoroughbred Racing Newspaper The Game, May 2007 15
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The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Ontario Division) is pleased to announce the release of the 2007 Thoroughbred Improvement Program (TIP). This coming after negotiations with Woodbine Entertainment Group, Fort Erie Racetrack, the HBPA and the approval of the industry regulator the Ontario Racing Commission.
Established to promote the breeding and racing of Ontario-Bred and Canadian-Bred horses in Ontario, the TIP program features awards, bonuses and purse money worth $9.3 million.
“The TIP program has been designed to support our Ontario breeders, and through this year’s program, we will be putting $9.3 million back into our industry,” said Julie Coulter, General Manager of the CTHS (Ontario Division). “While TIP funding for most 2007 Stakes races remains consistent with last year’s purses, this year’s program will be directed toward increased incentives for Ontario-bred horses.”
The TIP program supplements a wide number of incentives by supporting the purses of Stakes races, including the Triple Crown, Triple Tiara, Ontario Sires Stakes, Ontario-Bred and Canadian-Bred
Stakes, as well as Breeder and Stallion Awards. This year TIP’s funding of $100,000 toward the Bison City Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Tiara and valued at $250,000, will be allocated to Woodbine Racetrack.
“Due to some restructuring on their part, Fort Erie requested that the Bison City be moved to Woodbine,” said Coulter. “However, we were successful in being able to increase our TIP funding of the 2007 Prince of Wales to avail Fort Erie the ability to continue running the second leg of the prestigious Triple Crown at their track.”
Highlights include a 16 percent increase to the Breeders Awards program valued at $2.9 million, with a focus not only on local Graded Stakes, but also on Graded Stakes winners outside of the province.
For further information with regard to the 2007 TIP program, including the 2007 TIP Stakes schedule, please visit www.cthsont.com.
The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Ontario Division) is a non-profit organization representing breeders within Ontario by promoting Canadian- Bred/Ontario-Foaled Thoroughbreds, both nationally and around the world.
CTHS Awards Ontario Stallions
2007 TIP Program worth $9.3 Million
The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Ontario Division) has announced the top stallions of the 2006 Ontario Stallion Awards program, which is based on North American earnings of a sire’s Ontario-conceived progeny.
The 2006 top Ontario Sires Points Award recipients were:
1st – Bold Executive awarded $50,000 2nd – Archers Bay awarded $30,000 3rd – Whiskey Wisdom awarded
$20,000
Top First Crop Sire by North
American Earnings of Eligible Progeny: 1st – Cat’s At Home awarded $50,000.
Each year through the Ontario Thoroughbred Improvement Program (TIP), The Ontario Stallion Awards Program distributes $400,000 to stallion owners for their successful eligible progeny. This program is made up of two categories: Stallion Year End Points Awards, where $250,000 is Distributed on the basis of points earned by the progeny of the stallion during the 2006
calendar year; and Year End Top Stallion Awards, where $150,000 is distributed to stallions whose eligible Ontario conceived progeny achieved the highest North American earnings in 2006.
Initiated in 2003, the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society developed the Stallion Awards Program as an incentive for quality stallions to remain at stud in Ontario and for new stallions to be brought into the province for their Ontario breeders. The stallion awards are presented to the owner(s), lessee(s), or syndicate on record during the year nominated.
The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Ontario Division) is a non-profit organization representing breeders within Ontario by promoting Canadian- Bred/Ontario-Foaled Thoroughbreds, both nationally and around the world. For more, please contact the CTHS at 416-675-3602, by email at cthsont@idirect.com or visit www.cthsont.com.
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