The Ontario Sire Stakes is a category of Canadian Thoroughbred and Standardbred horse race. For Thoroughbred horse races, the race is restricted to horses of either sex sired by a stallion standing in the Province of Ontario for his entire season the year of conception and registered with the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society for that season.
For the Ontario Standardbred Sires Stakes program, the foal's stallion must be registered with the Ontario Sires Stakes program. To be eligible to the program, the stallion must be owned by an Ontario resident or leased to an Ontario resident.
Ontario Sire Stakes Thoroughbred races include the:
- Bull Page Stakes
- Bunty Lawless Stakes
- Deputy Minister Stakes
- Kingarvie Stakes
- La Prevoyante Stakes
- New Providence Stakes
- Shepperton Stakes
- Overskate Stakes
- Sir Barton Stakes
- Vice Regent Stakes
- Victoriana Stakes
Famous quotes containing the words sire and/or stakes:
“The sire then shook the honors of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“This man was very clever and quick to learn anything in his line. Our tent was of a kind new to him; but when he had once seen it pitched, it was surprising how quickly he would find and prepare the pole and forked stakes to pitch it with, cutting and placing them right the first time, though I am sure that the majority of white men would have blundered several times.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)