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4 The Game, November 2006 Canada’s Thoroughbred Racing Newspaper
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Assiniboia Downs Concludes 2006 Season
The 2006 thoroughbred season concluded at Assiniboia Downs on the weekend of September 22-September 24. The final weekend of racing helped determine the season’s close jockey and trainer championship titles for 2006.
Ardell Sayler & Alan Cuthbertson win 2006 Season Trainer & Jockey Crowns
Veteran trainer Ardell Sayler from Rapid City, South Dakota, in his 16th consecutive season at Assiniboia Downs, captured his 8th trainer’s title with 42 wins. Sayler started the 2006 season tied with another veteran trainer, Clayton Gray, who was the only other trainer
beside Sayler to have previously won 7 trainer titles at Assiniboia Downs. Sayler was also the defending trainer champion. Sayler won 64 races during the 2005 season. Tom Gardipy Jr. and Carl Anderson finished in a tie for second place with 38 wins.
This was Alan Cuthbertson’s first ever jockey crown at Assiniboia Downs. At age 57, Cuthbertson is the oldest competitive jockey riding this season in North America and finished with 81 wins. He beat out defending champion Rohan Singh and top apprentice rider Kirk Johnson by 3 wins. Singh and Johnson tied for second place with 78 wins.
Following the final race, General Manager Sharon Gulyas and Molson Breweries sales representative Gerald Lambert presented Sayler and Cuthbertson with their cheques; their championship trophies, a bottle of champagne and some Molson Canadian merchandise to recognize their season accomplishments. They were joined in the Winners’ Circle by jockey Rohan Singh and trainer Tom Gardipy Jr. who also received Molson merchandise and cheque presentations for being the top jockey and trainer during the month of September.
2006 Season Wagering Comparison (May 4 – September, 24, 2006)
The 2006 racing season which began on May 4 and ended on September 24, saw on-track wagering for the 70 day race calendar amounting to $5,473,085.28. This compared with the 2005 season which featured 75 race days and on-track wagering amounting to $5,792,775.53.
The average daily live on-track wagering for the 70 day meet amounted to $79,039 compared to $77,237 over 75 days in 2005. The number of races featured during the 2006 was 553 compared to 598 races during the 2005
season.
The average on-track wagering per
race in 2006 was $9,897 compared to $9,687 in 2005.
Partner simulcast wagering in 2006 on 70 days of racing amounted to $1,771,728.33 compared to $2,522,797.94 on 75 race days in 2005.
The average daily partner simulcast wagering in 2006 for the 70 days was $25,539 compared to $33,637 in 2005.
The average partner simulcast wagering per race in 2006 was $3,204
compared to $4,219 per race in 2005. The overall wagering totals for the 2006 season for 70 days was $7, 244, 813, 61 compared to $8,315, 573.47 for 75
days in 2005.
The average per day total for the 70
day season in 2006 was $104,578 compared to $110,874 for 75 days of rac- ing in 2005.
The average per race total wagering in 2006 with 70 race days was $13,101 compared to $13,906 in 2005 with 75 race days.
A Classic Duke Out Jockey Style at Northlands
It was a classic battle till the end in the jockey’s race at Northlands this season with jockey Rickey Walcott holding on to win the meet’s leading rider title for the second consecutive year.
Rickey finished off the Northland’s meet which ended on October 22 with one win more than jockey Quincy Welch, who finished second the previous year as well.
The two jockeys were tied in the number of wins column going in to the last weekend of racing for 2006 at Northlands and it looked like Quincy was going to run away with the title when he recorded four wins on the Friday card.
Not to be denied, Rickey responded with 4 wins of his own the next day, Saturday, and sealed the deal with a win in the seventh race on Sunday October 22.
Rickey Walcott and Quincy Welch are habitual rivals.
In 2006 at Stampede Park the order of finish was reversed with Quincy being named leading rider with 24 more wins over Rickey who finishing second behind Quincy for the second consecutive year.
The top five jockeys were:
Rickey Walcott (434-74-57-67 $1,033,424); Quincy Welch (317-73-63-57 $1,187,818); Shannon Beauregard, who had 4 wins herself on the last day of the meet (417-58-68-74 $856,439); Jake Barton (334-56-48-45 $888,394); Leanne Painter (379-52-56-49 $698,387)
Trainer Ron Smith retained his title as leading trainer for the 2006 meet at Northlands with two more wins (28) than trainer Greg Tracy, who finished with 26 wins, tied with train- er Stuart Simon at 26 wins.
The top five leading trainers were:
Ron Smith (154-28-20-22 $399,526); Greg Tracy (129-26- 28-23 $524,294); Stuart Simon (105-26-17-15 $386,466); Dale Greenwood (135-22-22-18 $313,006); Ron Grieves (126-32-19-21 $314,742).
Thoroughbred Racing will continue at Rocky Mountain Turf Club in Lethbridge until early November and will begin again in 2007 at Stampede Park in Calgary from April 11 to June 18 and will return to Northlands Park in Edmonton from June 22 to September 30.
LARRY GOULDING WAS ‘GOLDEN’ TO HIS MANY RACE TRACK FRIENDS
No matter what role Larry Goulding filled in his 30 years at Hastings race track, he was always meticulous and conscientious, constantly raising his own bar striving for excellence.
And he did it all so well. “Larry never liked to draw attention to himself,” says brother Randy of the Daily Racing Form. “I remember when he was a Sovereign Award finalist for a picture he took of Dave Wilson when Davey won six races on one card. Tom Wolski ran the photo in the Vancouver Province and Larry was uncomfortable with all the publicity.”
Cancer took Larry away from us Monday, Sept. 25 at 11:30 a.m. with his loving wife Alison at his side. He was
only 49 and the proud father of two children, nine-year-old daughter Brooke and two-year- old son Brandon.
Larry, Randy and Greg were
as close as brothers can get.
They were born in Winnipeg but
the family moved to southern California. “Larry had asthma
his entire life,” Randy says, “and
that was part of the reason we left Winnipeg.”
When Randy landed work at Hastings in 1976, Larry was quick to follow. People like Mel Snow, Mike Drozdowski, Junior Goss and Bill Linn all worked closely with Larry through a career that
included being a trainer, part-owner, clocker and track photographer. He was also an excellent musician who loved to play and teach guitar.
When Larry helped Veryl Filion run the track photogra- phy business in 1986 upon the passing of her husband Harry, Mrs. Filion referred to him as
her “golden boy”. Larry Goulding never realized how golden he was to everyone he touched in his 30 years at Hastings. - Greg Douglas
A celebration of Larry’s life was held at the George Royal Room at Hastings Racecourse.