Officials with Horse Racing New Brunswick have informed Trot Insider that two major stakes races in the province will get an updating and sponsorship for 2018 racing season.
In tribute and honour of the late Dawn Bremner, who has worked tirelessly for the harness racing industry in New Brunswick, HRNB has announced that the Bill Quigg Memorial will be renamed. Bremner passed away in March of 2017 after a brief battle with cancer.
For roughly 30 years, Dawn and her husband, Ted, ran a small Standardbred horse breeding and racing operation. Dawn got great joy from exceptional horses like Rose Valley, Pipe Major and Corrie Mack, but she loved all her other horses, good and not so good.
Dawn’s commitment to the Standardbred industry led her being named one of the two New Brunswick individuals appointed to the first Maritime Provinces Harness Racing Commission where she served two terms. She was the first female president of the Atlantic Standardbred Breeders Association that run the Atlantic Sires Stakes, and she served for five years on the board of Horse Racing New Brunswick.
Additionally, HRNB has informed Trot Insider that the Dr. John Williamson Memorial will become the Milton Downey Memorial.
The Downey Family of Saint John will sign on as sponsors for the stakes race which highlights the best two-year-olds in the Maritimes. It is a fitting recognition for a gentleman who was an active breeder and buyer of young stock.
(With files from HRNB)