Handicapping Contests
Assiniboia Downs is pleased to host 12 handicapping tournaments in 2025. Each tournament offers prize money along with earning points that go towards the Handicapper of the Year title. Your best seven out of 12 tournaments will be used for your Handicapper of the Year score.
Tournaments are open anyone who has a Manitoba HPI account. Please see below for complete details. If you have any questions please reach out to Sheri at sherig@ASDowns.com
- Player’s Choice Tournaments
1st Place: $1,000 plus trophy
2nd Place: $400
3rd Place: $200
4th Place: $100
5th Place: $50
Entry fee $25 (enter by 4 p.m. the Friday before). $2 Win-Place-Show on one horse in any race (harness, thoroughbred or quarter horse) from North America. Wagers must be placed on your HPI account before 10 p.m. on the contest day. See Player’s Choice tournament dates below. Click here for rules.
- ASD Handicapping Challenge
1st Place: $3,500 plus a trophy
2nd Place: $500
3rd Place: $250
ASD Handicapping Challenges are held during live racing on the dates listed below. Wagers are placed on your HPIbet account. Entry fee $50. $2 Win-Place-Show on one horse in all races from Assiniboia Downs on designated contest day. Receive entry fee discounts by qualifying each race day. Click here for entry form. Read the rules here.
2025 Tournament Dates
- Player’s Choice – Saturday, January 25 – results
- Player’s Choice – Saturday, February 22 – results
- Player’s Choice – Saturday, March 29 – results
- Player’s Choice – Saturday, April 26 – results
- ASD Handicapping Challenge – Tuesday, June 10 – qualifiers
- ASD Handicapping Challenge – Tuesday, July 8
- ASD Handicapping Challenge – Tuesday, August 12
- ASD Handicapping Challenge – Tuesday, September 9
- ASD Handicapping Challenge – Tuesday, October 7
- Player’s Choice – Saturday, November 8
- Player’s Choice – Saturday, November 29
- Player’s Choice – Saturday, December 27
- Current Handicapper of the Year standings
- Handicapper of the Year (determined by best 7 of 12 tournament scores)
1st Place: $3,500 plus trophy
2nd Place: $500
3rd Place: $250
Handicapper of the Year points sytem – see here
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