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Tickets for Chase the Ace Week #6 are on sale now with a $5,000 Guaranteed Accumulator Jackpot if someone picks the Ace of Diamonds!

PRIZES: The tournament winner receives a trip for two to Las Vegas and a trophy (the winner will be provided $3,500 to book their trip to Las Vegas). Second place finisher will receive a $500 deposit to their HPI account, the third place finisher will receive a $250 deposit to their HPI account.

Entry fee into the Las Vegas Challenge is $50 but can be reduced by qualifying on Assiniboia Downs’ race cards leading up to the tournament. To qualify you must select the horse that you think will win each race on the Assiniboia Downs race card. Email your selections for that race night to Sheri at [email protected] prior to the start of racing. If you select three winners on the race card, your entry fee is reduced to $25. For every other race card that you select three winners on your entry fee is reduced by another $5. 

140 VLTs available daily in our spacious Club West Gaming Lounge from 10 a.m. through 1 a.m. Please note that our VLTs are sanitized between play. Click here for a full list of games available at ASD.

Friday Steak & Suds $24.95: 8 oz. Sirloin steak charbroiled and seasoned with our smoky dry rub. Served with fresh vegetables and a choice of mashed potatoes or french fries. Plus a complimentary pint of ASD Lucky Lager.

Saturday Prime & Wine $29.95: Certified Angus Prime Rib (8 oz.) cut. Served with fresh vegetables and a choice of mashed potatoes or french fries, horseradish, and Yorkshire pudding au jus. Plus a complimentary 6 oz. glass of house wine.

Sunday Fish & Chips $14.95: Two pieces of beer battered cod with tartar sauce and lemon. Served with french fries and coleslaw.

Add a starter Caesar salad, tossed salad or soup of the day to any of the above specials for $3.95. Served from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Reservations are not required.

Reservations are required. Call 204-885-3330. Click here for our 2023 racing schedule.

Spitten Kitten beat the best from Alberta in the $50,000 Chantilly Stakes on Tuesday, six-time leading trainer Tom Gardipy, Jr. surged to the lead in the trainer standings with four wins and four jockeys scored hat tricks last week in an effort to make some headway on runaway leader Antonio Whitehall.

Facing heavily favoured four-time Alberta stakes winner Big Hug among six rivals in the Chantilly, Spitten Kitten exploded out of the gate under jockey Sven Balroop, opened up nearing the turn, and smoothly clawed her way home to win the 43^rd running of the race for trainer Marvin Buffalo, his wife Deb and ownership partner Arnold Souster.

Alberta shipper Super Caro, trained by Colleen O’Hagan, gave her best in the stretch to get within a length of Spitten Kitten at the wire, while Big Hug rallied mildly to finish third. A four-time winner, Super Caro had been running in $20,000 claiming races on the turf at Tampa Bay before finishing second to Big Hug in the Chariot Chaser Handicap at Century Mile in her start previous to the Chantilly.

Purchased for only $2,500 as a yearling by Marvin and Deb Buffalo at a fall mixed sale in Arizona, Spitten Kitten has now earned a whopping $58,380 (US) for her owners and is two-for-two at Assiniboia Downs. The daughter of multiple Group 1 winner Air Force Blue would appear to have a bright future ahead of her, thanks to the excellent development work by Marvin and Deb Buffalo.

The Chantilly took place on the eve of National Indigenous Peoples Day, and it seemed so perfectly fitting that Tom Gardipy, Jr. from Beardy’s Cree Nation in Saskatchewan was on hand to make the presentation to Marvin Buffalo, who hails from Day Star First Nation in the same province.

Gardipy moved into top spot in the trainer standings with his four wins including Roaming Union ($58.50), the biggest longshot winner of the meeting so far. Gardipy now has 10 wins, one more than trainer Jerry Gourneau, who also continued to roll with three wins on the week.

Four jockeys scored triples on the week including Jorge Carreno, Ronald Ali, Prayven Badrie, and Damario Bynoe, but are still well back of Antonio Whitehall, who has 19 wins. Badrie and Ali are tied for second in the standings with 11 wins apiece, one more than Carreno and Bynoe, who are tied for third in the standings with 10 wins.

While Whitehall only had one win on the week, he has a number of horses coming back that are sitting on a win, and on the trainer side, Jerry Gourneau apparently has more horses coming from top owner Henry S. Witt, Jr.

Both could prove very tough to beat.

“I listened to Stretch and Kirt discuss him on the handicapping show,” said Zurba. “And I liked the fact he was getting first-time Lasix, and he was going off at 20-1.”

Zurba has been involved in the Assiniboia Racing Club run by John Field for the last few years. The group claimed a horse at Aqueduct through former ASD trainer Rob Atras, and they’re hoping it will start soon. He’s also been involved in a breeding syndicate with 12 people, but he’s going to try to convince them into buying a horse at the CTHS Manitoba Yearling Sale in August.

The "I Won Bigg" wagering group will not be playing a group ticket this week. The next scheduled group wager is on ASD Wednesday, June 28. $20 per share. Email Larry at [email protected] for more information.