Let it be noted that the winner of the first race on the first card of the first night of the 2023 Assiniboia Downs race meet was Market King, a seven-year-old Kentucky gelding whose grandfather is the legendary AP Indy.
The 2023 live racing season starts Monday night at Assiniboia Downs and despite some ongoing construction, the building and the horse people can’t wait for the first post.
Ask the experts and they’ll all say the same thing: “Forte.” It’s been a while since one horse has garnered as much pre-race talk as this year’s Kentucky Derby favourite.