Ontario-sired horses had their hoofprints all over the 2024 O’Brien Awards, claiming seven of the 13 award categories, including the Somebeachsomewhere Horse of the Year (Chantilly).

Royal Patronage, a former Graham Motion trainee and winner of an allowance race at Keeneland on April 20, 2023, secured his first Group 1 victory at Randwick in Australia.