Trainers are having field days at their respective tracks with long leads in their category early in the season.
Jerry Gourneau
The trainer got a great start on snagging another track season title, winning five of six races to lead the standings.
The hottest track in Canada in recent years is set to excite and entertain on weekday nights beginning May 12.
Texan Henry Witt will be going after his eighth consecutive leading owner title at Assiniboia Downs in 2026.
For the second time in a year, Gourneau has had horses test positive for a overage of a legal corticosteroid.
At Assiniboia Downs, the track's Monday to Wed. night schedule continues to be popular with fans and trainer Jerry Gourneau keeps winning.
Henry Witt Jr. has been the leading owner at Assiniboia Downs for five years and won his first Manitoba Derby in 2023 with Mano Dura.
Wagering per race at the 2023 Assiniboia Downs meeting was up and Gourneau and Whitehall take trainer and jockey titles.
Mano Dura, the upset winner of the Manitoba Derby, will meet 11 other rivals as he attempts to win at Century Mile.
Kentucky-bred colt is first Manitoba Derby winner for longtime leading Assiniboia Downs owner Henry Witt, Jr.
Manitoba trainers Tom Gardipy Jr. and Jerry Gourneau became the first conditioners inducted into the North American-wide Hall of Fame.
As the restriction-free 2022 season concludes, the Winnipeg track reports wagering totals second only to 2020 numbers.
Assiniboia Downs seeks to erase the haunting memories of the past two quiet Derbies due to Covid restrictions.
Winnipeg track changes course due to COVID-19 pandemic and cyber meeting, and while difficult, yields big wagering numbers on shortened season.
Some news from the most recent week in Canadian racing and it appears as if the country's leading trainer Jerry Gourneau will try his hand at Woodbine.
