Sheri Glendinning

Celebrating Ten Years of the Overnight Stakes Series

Celebrating Ten Years of the Overnight Stakes Series

June 9, 2017 Overnight Stakes Honouree - Merry's Jay (Gerry Hart) By Track Historian Bob Gates This season, the Assiniboia Downs Overnight Stakes Series has ten burning candles on its birthday cake. Credit for the creation of the Overnight Stakes goes to the Manitoba...

$100 Winner Triggers Monster Pick 4 Payoff, Fans Feast on Stakes

$100 Winner Triggers Monster Pick 4 Payoff, Fans Feast on Stakes

Take Charge Tom and jockey Rasheed Hughes win the $50,000 Derby Trial on Monday evening at ASD. $100 Winner Triggers Monster Pick 4 Payoff, Stakes Feast Entertains Loud Crowds By G.S. Thompson What a week! Four stakes, a $104.10 winner, a $27,239.05 Pick 4, and big...

A Half Century of the R. C. Anderson

A Half Century of the R. C. Anderson

R.C. Anderson Trophy (Jason Halstead) By Track Historian Bob Gates On June 11, 1975, Robert Carr “Bob” Anderson, husband of Victoria May Anderson, passed away, and our racing fraternity lost a special friend and contributor. Not long after Bob’s death, a race was...

Queen’s Cup and other Historic Trophies

Queen’s Cup and other Historic Trophies

Queen's Cup (Jason Halstead) By Track Historian Bob Gates The Manitoba Derby, Winnipeg Futurity, Gold Cup and R. J. Speers combine for more than 300 years of memorable races. This week our story is about the hardware that’s up for grabs, and not so much the history of...

Pleasant Memories of Henry Bruce Boreham

Pleasant Memories of Henry Bruce Boreham

H. Bruce Boreham, Downs Director of Public Relations. (Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame) By Track Historian Bob Gates On June 1, 1959 Assiniboia Downs General Manager, A. G. “Scotty” Kennedy announced that the Downs had appointed its first Director of Public Relations....