During the last 4 weeks, The Jockey Membership launched its annual statistics for the North American breeding business and Ontario confirmed optimistic positive aspects throughout the board.
The variety of Ontario-sired dwell foals reported to The Jockey Membership via Oct. 4 was up 2.6% over final 12 months, the variety of stallions registered within the province elevated by 12.5%, and the variety of mares reported bred via Oct. 18 was up 13.9%. Ontario was the one jurisdiction with optimistic positive aspects in all three classes.
“Ontario, when it comes to development on the breeding facet, is the primary jurisdiction in North America,” stated David Anderson, breeder consultant on the board of Ontario Racing and member of the Thoroughbred Enchancment Program Committee. “I simply obtained again from the autumn gross sales and fairly actually that is all everybody needs to speak about, are our applications. I feel they’re modern and they’re ahead pondering, and we will bolster our numbers and bolster our high quality going ahead.”
Among the many applications drawing curiosity from breeders and homeowners are the 2021-22 Mare Recruitment and Buy Packages, and the brand new for 2021 Ontario Sire Heritage Sequence and Gross sales Credit score Program.
The Mare Recruitment and Buy applications supply breeders incentives totaling CA$800,000 for bringing new in-foal mares to the province. The MRP presents all breeders a CA$5,000 incentive for each new mare delivered to the province to foal in 2022, whereas the MPP offers Ontario residents a rebate of as much as 50%, to a most of CA$25,000, on the acquisition worth of an in-foal mare from an Ontario Racing acknowledged public public sale. Mares enrolled in each applications are then eligible for a CA$2,500 incentive if they’re bred to a registered Ontario sire in 2022.
“Final time we did this system was two years in the past and we exhausted all of the funding, we needed to flip folks away. And we obtained 129 new mares within the province, of which 79 of them bred again to Ontario sires,” stated Anderson. “I feel there’s a variety of potential right here within the province of Ontario going ahead.”
The Ontario Sire Heritage Sequence noticed Ontario-sired 3-year-old colts and geldings and 3-year-old fillies accumulate factors in a trio of CA$80,000 legs at Woodbine and Fort Erie over 5, six, and 7 furlongs. The CA$100,000 finals, the Lake Ontario and Ashbridges Bay Stakes at 1 1/16 miles, are slated for Nov. 19 at Woodbine with Reload offspring Red River Rebel and Sunsprite leading the way in the colt/gelding and filly point standings. A total of CA$70,000 in bonuses will go to the top three point earners in each division.
In addition, owners with registered Ontario-bred horses competing in claiming races at Woodbine and Fort Erie earned credits for the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society Ontario yearling and mixed sales each time their horse visited the winner’s circle this season.
“Hopefully with some of the new programs, like the new Heritage Series, it’s going to create new demand for the Ontario-sired horse,” said Peter Berringer, president of the Ontario division of the CTHS. “You have to be optimistic when the numbers show we’ve stabilized, and increased slightly, and are trending in the right direction.”
