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Remembering Donna Johnston

Remembering Donna Johnston

by Sheri Glendinning | Dec 11, 2025 | Live Racing, The Inside Track

Donna Johnston (left) with sisters Marion and Linda (right) and their horse Wire Me the Money in the Assiniboia Downs backstretch. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press) By G.S. Thompson Remembering Donna Johnston Longtime Assiniboia Downs trainer Donna Johnston...

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Bynoe Puts on a Riding Clinic, Gourneau, Taphorn Win Big in Championship Races

Bynoe Puts on a Riding Clinic, Gourneau, Taphorn Win Big in Championship Races

by Sheri Glendinning | Sep 18, 2025 | Live Horse Racing, Live Racing, The Inside Track

Burrow Down and jockey Damario Bynoe win the $50,000 Manitoba Matron on Tuesday at ASD for trainer Mike Taphorn and owner Gerald Babchishin. (Jason Halstead / Assiniboia Photo) by G.S. Thompson Jockey Damario Bynoe put on a riding clinic at the Downs this week with...

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Roger Jones Wins ASD Handicapping Challenge for Third Time

Roger Jones Wins ASD Handicapping Challenge for Third Time

by Sheri Glendinning | Sep 18, 2025 | Handicapping, Live Racing, The Inside Track

Roger Jones with his ASD Handicapping Challenge trophy at the Fan Education booth. Fellow handicapper and fan educator Brad Ostrove on the right. Stop by and ask them a question when you’re at the track. Smart guys! (George Williams Photo) By G.S. Thompson Roger Jones...

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Jason Homer, Shavon Townsend Score Hat Tricks, Keplin Increases Lead in Trainer Standings

Jason Homer, Shavon Townsend Score Hat Tricks, Keplin Increases Lead in Trainer Standings

by Sheri Glendinning | Sep 4, 2025 | Live Racing, The Inside Track

The Assiniboia Racing Club packed the winner’s circle after winning the first race on Wednesday with Bandera Azteca, conditioned by Devon Gittens. (Jason Halstead / Assiniboia Photo) By G.S. Thompson Trainer Jason Homer and jockey Shavon Townsend were the hotties of...

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What a Week for Favourites! Ride of the Week Goes to Javaniel Patterson.

What a Week for Favourites! Ride of the Week Goes to Javaniel Patterson.

by Sheri Glendinning | Aug 14, 2025 | Live Horse Racing, Live Racing, The Inside Track

Designated Hitter (inside) and Javaniel Patterson hold off Totalizer and Rachaad Knights in the third race on Wednesday. (Jason Halstead / Assiniboia Photo) By G.S. Thompson The public was especially sharp this week at ASD, as the first or second choices on the tote...

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Post Parade Decision Delivers First Contest Win for James Werry

Post Parade Decision Delivers First Contest Win for James Werry

by Sheri Glendinning | Aug 14, 2025 | Handicapping, Live Horse Racing, Live Racing, The Inside Track

August ASD Handicapping Challenge winner James Werry. By G.S. Thompson A decision made on post parade proved to be the winning move for veteran handicapper James Werry on Tuesday night, who won the ASD Handicapping Challenge by $8.70 with a bankroll of $60.10. Werry...

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Live Racing a Go for Second Year in a Row at ASD with No Fans in the Stands

Live Racing a Go for Second Year in a Row at ASD with No Fans in the Stands

by admin | May 12, 2021 | ASD History, Live Horse Racing, Live Racing

by Bob Gates The 2021 season gets underway on Monday, May 24. This will be the second year of the pandemic "No Fans in the Stands" season of racing. Sure, it's not what everyone wants, but it beats the blazes out of seeing the local racing scene fade into obscurity. I...

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Opening day 2018 beckons at ASD. A little history!

Opening day 2018 beckons at ASD. A little history!

by Cindy webwizards | May 9, 2018 | ASD History, Live Racing

by Bob Gates Everyone's talking about the Kentucky Derby and Mothers' Day is just around the corner. You know what that means! Live racing is set to return to Assiniboia Downs! After a seven-month hiatus the Downs launches its 2018 season of thoroughbred horse racing...

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Assiniboia Downs celebrates Diamond Jubilee as dark, mysterious stranger lurks

Assiniboia Downs celebrates Diamond Jubilee as dark, mysterious stranger lurks

by Cindy webwizards | May 10, 2017 | ASD History, Live Horse Racing, Live Racing

  by Bob Gates Have you seen him? His slicked-back black-as-night hair high atop the 60-year-old Assiniboia Downs grandstand.  For the last couple of months his signature morning screams have echoed throughout the grounds as the Downs prepares to kick off Season...

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Paralyzed Canadian jockey Alyssa Selman faces long road to recovery but…

Paralyzed Canadian jockey Alyssa Selman faces long road to recovery but…

by Cindy webwizards | Jul 17, 2015 | Live Horse Racing, Live Racing

by George Paralyzed Canadian jockey Alyssa Selman was told by doctors this week that she has only a five percent chance of ever walking again, but she bubbled with talk of a dream house and horses on Thursday night in the Rehabilitation Ward at Winnipeg's Health...

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