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Canada’s Thoroughbred Racing Newspaper The Game, April 2009 11 Monsoon Rain and Queen Tina Crowned Horses of the Year
Assiniboia Downs blew out the nal candle on its 50th anniversary with the crowning of Horse of the Year and Manitoba-bred Horse of the Year in the annual Horse of the Year Banquet held Saturday evening.
winner of the 2008 North Dakota Stallion Stakes and nished second to Lady Countdown in the $50,000 Debutante Stakes.
Broodmare Award of Excellence: High Grades owned by Cam Ziprick
Monsoon Rain, owned by Larry Carter and trained by Marty Drexler, washed away his completion for Horse of the Year, presented by the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, as easy
Best 2-year-old colt or gelding: Prayforthesoldiers (owner: Play 2 Win, trainer: Aaron Sayler), winner of the 2008 Winnipeg Futurity
The Manitoba-bred stakes winners for 2008
are: 2-year-olds, Adventcia, Copper Badges, One on One; 3-year-olds, Bella Mariella, Blueberry Blonde, Custody Battle, La Wildcat, Queen Tina, Spying Eyes; Older horse, Brinello.
as he did on the track in 2008. Winning ve in a row including the $30,000 Wheat City Stakes, the $30,000 R. J. Speers Memorial, and the $75,000 Gold Cup, he captured the triple crown of stakes for older horses at Assiniboia Downs.
Best 3-year-old lly: Miss Missile (owner/trainer: Charlie Smith), winner of the 2008 Chantilly Stakes, Winnipeg Sun Stakes, Canada Day Stakes and Jack Hardy Memorial.
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Winnipeg based Star eld Stables’s Queen Tina, trained by Harry Kube, garnered her nal jewel in her crown taking Manitoba-bred Horse of the Year honours. “The Queen” won two stakes in 2008 including the $50,000 R. C. Anderson Memorial and the $50,000 Distaff Stakes. She also nished
a respectable third to Champion 3-year-old lly Miss Missile in the Chantilly Stakes. Manitoba- bred Horse of the Year is presented by the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society, Manitoba Chapter.
Best Older Mare: Polynesian Kitty (owner: Bradley Butcher, trainer: Jamie Ness), winner of the LaVerendrye Stakes and Winnipeg Sun Stakes
Rock’n USA, owned by Tanya and Shirley Lindsay and Marvin Burnett, rocked the competition as Champion Sprinter for 2008. The 5-year-old gelding went ve for ve facing some of the fastest horses
Percentage Trainer of the Year: Jim Tracy (25.49%)
at Assiniboia Downs before facing Monsoon Rain in the R. J. Speers and the Gold Cup. Rock’n USA is trained by Tanya Lindsay.
Owner of the Year: Off 2 Win
Best 2-year-old lly: Dreamin and Schemin (owner: Off 2 Win Stable, trainer: Ardell Sayler)
Breeder of the Year: Cam Ziprick
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Best 3-year-old colt of gelding: Mr. Exspeedient (owner/trainer: Clint Willson), winner of the 2008 Derby Trial.
Best Older Horse: Monsoon Rain (owner: Larry Carter, trainer: Marty Drexler) – see above
Claimer of the Year: Time to Act (owner: Off 2 Win, trainer: Ardell Sayler)
Leading Trainer: Ardell Sayler (41 wins)
Jockey of the Year: Alan Cuthbertson (107 wins)
Here are the winners of the other year-end categories:
The CTHS presented awards to all of the 2008 stakes winners bred in Manitoba as well as the following awards:
Stallion of the Year: Battle Cat owned by Cam Ziprick
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Did You Know....
That Woodbine based trainer, Ashlee Brnjas was named trainer of the month for February at Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar, Florida.
This was the rst year that Ashlee, who trains for her father John’s Colebrook
Farms, had
brought a string
of horses to
Tampa. “I’m
having a great
time here,” says
Brnjas. “The
horses are loving
it. They love the
racetrack.”
Ashlee had
Back Row: Left to Right Shane Gumprich, Jim Alendal, Ralph Jesiak, and Doug Hoggard Front Row: Left to Right -- Dave Forster, Leif Nordahl, Suzanne Anderson, Scott Ksionzyk, and Deborah Holmes
Missing was: Robert White.
three wins from nine starts in the week of February 18 – February
26 at Tampa and through Thursday, March 7, Brnjas had six wins, seven seconds and three third-place nishes from 35 starters, giving her an impressive 46% in-the-money nishes from 57 days of racing.
Chair of the Thoroughbred Nominating Committee
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