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The return of live harness racing to Manitoba is just over one month away, with participants eager to return to the racetrack courtesy a strong horse population.
“We’ll have about 100 horses racing this year, Trevor Williams, president of the Manitoba Standardbred Racing Industry told Pembina Valley Online. We have horsemen coming from Saskatchewan. Very shortly they’ll move onto a farm in Manitoba to quarantine, so they can race at the end of June. As far as Manitoba goes we have horsemen from across the province.
According to Williams, Manitoba s circuit will once again focus on the Miami location with 10 race dates. Miami is approximately 90 minutes / 120 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg, and three hours from the Saskatchewan border.
A raft of out-of-town vendors who had set up booths were booted from a large pop-up market in Winnipeg after it became known that they failed to isolate for 14 days upon arriving in Manitoba.
But the province is allowing the market to proceed throughout the weekend despite Manitoba being in the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cynthia Carr, a Winnipeg epidemiologist, fears the virus may have already spread at the site of the Third + Bird market at Red River Exhibition Place because the vendors had already interacted with people. It s indoors, so yes, I m definitely worried, she said.
Out-of-town members invited to the market came from Saskatchewan, Alberta, Ontario, British Columbia, and at least one vendor from Georgia.
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A Winnipeg developer has plans in the works to put the Standardbred sport on the map in Manitoba s largest city within the next year and there s nothing standard about his approach or his vision.
Garth Rogerson, CEO of the not-for-profit Red River Exhibition Association, is leading the charge to expand harness racing in Manitoba beyond its current rural footprint. And while many existing facilities either feature racing as the lone attraction or relegate it to a mere afterthought, Rogerson envisions a setup where the races aren t necessarily alone in the spotlight, but still an integral element of a greater entertainment experience much in the same vein as minor league sports.