The top performers of the Alberta racing season 2024 in Alberta were awarded on Saturday, March 1, at the Best Western Premier Plaza in Calgary, Alta, at the annual Alberta Standardbred Horse Association (ASHA).
The star of the night was a stut veteran bidder (Stutfussguns n Rosen ()Caught audience-Gunslingin Gal), who was earned after an outstanding season in the second year in which she won 11 out of 13 starts and $ 285,270 for coach Rod Starkewski. In addition to winning two finals in Alberta Sires Stakes and the superfinals, she won the Shirley McClelland Breeders Stakes, Century Casino Stutfoption and destroyed her competition in the Gord & Illa Rumpel Memorial with a 1: 51.3 success record for three-year-olds at Century Down.
Some of their connections were also recognized individually when Starkewski and Clauzette Bycal were appointed owner of the year and Outlaw Stable of the Year was recognized as a breeder of the year.
The first Keith Clark Horsemanship Award became the experienced trainer/driver Jamie Gray Sturgeon County. The prestigious award, which died last December last December, is named in honor of the Canadian Hall of Fame -Hall -Hall of Fame and celebrates a person who illustrates outstanding skills, commitment and passion for sport, just like Keith Clark during his legendary career.
Gray also received the Breeder Award for six mares and under and his domestic pudding dolce was first class in the two -year stut categories. The daughter of Pudding The Dragon from Blue Star West was undefeated in Stakes Action and set up a success record of 1:54 for two-year Century downs in the ASHA Stuttempo. In total, she won eight of her nine starts and earned just under 140,000 US dollars for Gray and the partners Jackson Wittup, Max Gibb and Derek Wilson.
Mike Hennessy was honored with the driver of the year after he had won a profit statistics with 155 victories and more than $ 1.2 million in the defense of the older older male Pacer Hai week in his almost perfect season, while Travis Ellis was won for the second season with more than 70 breeds and $ 400,000 in a row.
The full list of winners appears below.
The two-year-old Alberta stut foal
Pudding Dolce
Two -year -old stut foal
Pudding Dolce
The two-year-old Alberta-Sired Colt/Wallach
MOMA's works of art
Two -year -old Colt/gelding
Outlawminutbymint
Three-year-old Alberta season foal
Outlawguns n roses
Three -year -old stut foal
Outlawguns n roses
Three-year-old Alberta-Sired Colt/Wallach
Gray horizon
Three -year -old Colt/gelding
Gray horizon
Mare
Hide the cookies
Icy horse/gelding
Haienwoche
Mare claim
Cheese Whiz
Right to horse/gelding
Came a cavalier
Breeding stamp
Rummy's command
Trainer – under 200 starts
Chris Lancaster
Trainer of the year
Travis Ellis
Driver – under 200 starts
Thomas Miller
Driver of the year
Mike Hennessy
Owner of the year
Rod Starkewski and Clauzette Bycal
Breeder – six mares and under
Jamie Gray
Breeder of the year
Forbidden stable
Keith Clark Horsemanship Award
Jamie Gray
Caretaker of the year
Amber Campbell
Horse of the year
Outlawguns n roses
Out of Standardbred Canada
