Very sad to hear of the passing of #NewEnglandRacingHallOfFame
trainer Charles Assimakopoulos. Charlie trained for +35 years,
mainly at Suffolk Downs & Rockingham Park,
but also won stakes at The Meadowlands & at NYRA tracks.
The past few decades he spent winter meets at Tampa & Laurel.
Charlie was also the original trainer of GANDER.
Hope Suffolk Downs does a memorial tribute this summer.
RIP Tikey.
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/24/s...t-belmont.html