That will be based on vaccination rates and key public health and health-care indicators. Golf, tennis, basketball and other outdoor sports are set to reopen across Ontario on Saturday. I m relieved only in the sense it gives some certainty to horse people to let them plan, Lawson said. But with the measures we have in place for racing and our safety record, it shouldn t have taken this long.
The 2021 standardbred season will restart June 14 at Woodbine Mohawk Park and continue its usual schedule of racing on five days weekly (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday). The thoroughbred campaign will open June 18 roughly two weeks later than originally scheduled at Woodbine Racetrack and continue through June 20 for the opening weekend.
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Woodbine Entertainment hosted a Stronger Together event via livestream on Wednesday (May 19), where CEO Jim Lawson spoke about and took questions on the development and future of the Woodbine property in Rexdale, Ont.
At the start of the session, Lawson provided an update on the state of racing in the province, which has been shut down since April due to a spike in coronavirus cases. The stay-at-home order set to expire on April 28 was then extended through May 20. Woodbine Entertainment, said Lawson, has been communicating with the local administrations to try and bring racing back as soon as possible.
“We continue to be concerned and frustrated,” Lawson said of the continued shutdown. “We’ve had very good and constructive conversations with Toronto Public Health – they’ve been great. The premier’s office have been supportive and great. But there is, seemingly, a very difficult hurdle with the Provincial Ministry of Health, and quite frankly I just don’t understand
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