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WINNIPEG — The California invader Mongolian Wind has won the 72nd running of the $60,000 Manitoba Derby.

Assiniboia Downs CEO Darren Dunn believes Monday Night’s 72nd running of the Manitoba Derby will be the weirdest of them all.

Just call it The Jerry Gourneau 61st Running of the $25,000 Manitoba Mile.

The Manitoba-bred Dazzling Gold gave it an incredible effort, but the favourite, Kickalittlebooty, just had too much gas in the tank when it counted.

WINNIPEG — There is a bit of misinformation floating around about horse trainer Tiffany Husbands.

WINNIPEG — Labhay, an Irish-bred six-year-old mare owned by Mike Powers and trained by Jerry Gourneau, could not have run a better race.

Miss Imperial, the winner of the Canada Day Stakes, will face Hidden Grace, who lost the first race of her career to Miss Imperial in those same Canada Day Stakes, will go head-to-head once again in the $25,000 Escape Clause Stakes at Assiniboia Downs this Wednesday night.

Real Grace shipped in from Canterbury for Shelley Brown and her partners and immediately won the Derby Trial.

With the $75,000 Manitoba Derby only three weeks away, it’s time to get serious for the local contenders.

Huge money was wagered and won, Christmas Dance and Deep Explorer won the two big stakes races and Antonio Whitehall extended his lead in the jockey standings.

Assiniboia Downs CEO Darren Dunn called it, “a record that will never be broken.”