Nick Eaves, president and CEO of Woodbine Entertainment Group, Canada’s premier horse racing business, earned more than $700,000 as the province’s highest paid race track executive in 2014, according to a salary disclosure list posted by the sport’s regulator.

Similar to Ontario’s annual sunshine list for public sector employees, the Ontario Racing Commission — which regulates horse racing in the province — discloses its own list of race track employees who make $100,000 or more.

As of 2014, race track operators receiving money through transfer payment agreements with the province had to disclose salaries of personnel earning $100,000 or more to the Ontario Racing Commission as a condition of obtaining funding. That funding flows through the commission to the race tracks from the province’s Horse Racing Partnership Plan.

Eaves, who is scheduled to step down from his Woodbine job Tuesday, earned $721,125, according to the commission list, which includes a total of 33 Woodbine Entertainment Group employees.

Other top Woodbine earners include Sean Pinsonneault, executive vice president and chief operating officer, at $383,438; William Ford, vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, at $376,250; Jim Lawson, chairman, at $366,000; James Martin, executive vice president, at $332,188.

There were nine from other Ontario race tracks on the commission’s list. They include: Flamboro Downs’ Bruce Barbour, who earned $218,855 as executive director of racing operations (Ontario); Ottawa’s Rideau Carleton general manager Jean Larose, who collected $150,000; and at Fort Erie, Ontario’s only other thoroughbred track, Tom Valiquette received $140,538 as chief financial officer.

The Ontario Racing Commission posted its list Monday afternoon.

In 2012, the province announced it would end a slot machine revenue-sharing agreement it had with horse racing track operators. Kathleen Wynne’s government soon after agreed to provide upwards of $400 million in public funding over five years to assist the sport in becoming self-sustainable.

As an example of Horse Racing Partnership Plan funding, Woodbine Entertainment Group received about $61 million in 2014 to run its standardbred and thoroughbred operations at Woodbine and Mohawk race tracks, money to be used for purses.

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