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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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Sly Gold rebounds off tough-trip loss to win 51st running of Osiris Stakes

Sly Gold rebounds off tough-trip loss to win 51st running of Osiris Stakes

by Cindy webwizards | Aug 20, 2014 | Live Horse Racing, Live Racing

by George Sly Gold rebounded off a tough-trip loss in the Graduation Stakes to wire his field in the $30,000 Osiris Stakes for 2-year-olds on Wednesday night at Assiniboia Downs, and in the process turned the tables on Graduation Stakes victor Spider's Alibi. Taking...

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Live racing canceled for Friday May 9, continues Saturday and Mother’s Day Sunday as scheduled

by Cindy webwizards | May 7, 2014 | Live Racing

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Due to a lack of entries, live racing at Assiniboia Downs Race Track has been officially canceled for Friday, May 9. Live racing will continue as originally scheduled on Saturday, May 10 at 7:00 p.m. and Mother's Day...

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The Rob’s, Questions Answered, Questions Posed

by Cindy webwizards | Oct 1, 2013 | Live Horse Racing, Live Racing

by Rob The 2013 race meet was highlighted by a group of horses that dominated their respective divisions. It was an absolute honour to watch these horses dominate each group. The memories roll back of Balooga Bull’s comeback, of Zdeno’s Futurity and of Portales’ big...

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A Total Eclipse of the (Gerry) Hart? No.

by Cindy webwizards | Sep 18, 2013 | ASD History, Live Horse Racing, Live Racing

  by Bob Track photographer Gerry Hart retiring? No, but while this may not be Gerry’s final season at the Downs, it will probably be the last year that he operates on his own. Maybe we should think of his work cut-back as more of a “partial eclipse.” Gerry has...

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