Handicap Your Way To Cash and Vegas
Winning the annual $2 million National Horseplayers Championship is one of the most difficult feats in handicapping. Players must qualify to get to the February event in Las Vegas and this weekend Canterbury offers a pair of contests that can initiate that journey. Saturday’s Ultimate Handicapper’s Weekend Satellite, with a $100 entry fee, will move […]
BREEDERS’ CUP ANNOUNCES FUTURE WAGERING FOR 2018 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Accelerate is 4-1 Favorite in Breeders’ Cup Classic Future Wager; Monomoy Girl 7-2 Favorite in Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff Future Wager; First of Three Wagering Pools Opens Friday, August 24 LEXINGTON, Ky. (August 22, 2018) — The Breeders’ Cup, in conjunction with Churchill Downs, announced today the introduction of future wagering on this year’s Breeders’ […]
Horse Racing Ancient Indian Tradition
By Jim Wells Outside, over 150 horses grazed under the watchful eye of White Man’s Dog….It seemed odd that two sleeps ago these horses were content to belong to the Crow. Now they were Pikuni (Blackfeet) horses and seemed equally content. FOOLS CROW BY JAMES WELCH By some accounts, the first sport in the American […]
Darrin Hall Gets Things Off To A Good Start
By Rebecca Roush Darrin Hall is new to Canterbury Park as the starter this season, but is certainly not new to the horse racing industry. His job here is dispatching horses from the starting gate in an orderly fashion. After years of watching his father train horses, he began to ride and went on to […]
2018 Thoroughbred Yearling Sale
The Minnesota Thoroughbred Association will host its annual MTA Yearling Sale on Sunday, August 19 in the Canterbury Park Expo Center. Doors will open at 3 p.m. on Sunday and the live auction-style sale will begin at 4 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. This year […]
Diodoro Chose Horses Over Hockey
BY JIM WELLS Robertino Diodoro departed for Saratoga on Sunday to survey his stable there for a few days, leaving the barn at Canterbury Park to his assistants and crew, an assembly he routinely applauds as the most vital element of the team. “Without them, none of this is possible,” he said. Diodoro rarely speaks […]
Sale Of The Century
By Noah Joseph This Sunday at Canterbury is the annual Minnesota Bred Yearling Sale. A bevy of yearlings, all bred here in Minnesota, will pass through the sales ring to prospective buyers and onlookers, with everyone looking for the next star to race at Canterbury. Let’s take a look back at some previous sales, and […]
Stevens Returns To Canterbury Park
BY JIM WELLS Racing fans exasperated by the weather this summer might benefit from a chat with Canterbury Park Hall of Fame rider Scott Stevens. Stevens had mounts Saturday and Sunday at Arapaho Park in Colorado and planned to point his motor home eastward on Sunday night. The three-time riding champion at Canterbury Park will […]
Mr. Jagermeister If You Please
BY JIM WELLS He was a colt among weanlings, a giant among the Lilliputians. He was Mr. Jagermeister at his best, simply too much for six competitors to handle. It was a scene similar to what high school opponents must have gasped at when they saw Lebron James for the first time. Are you kidding […]
Bernell Rhone – August 14, 2003 – A Night To Remember
By Rebecca Roush Nearly 15 years ago, on August 14, 2003 long-time trainer Bernell Rhone won six of the seven races in which his horses were entered at Canterbury Park. The career-record day was one that Rhone can still recall. “Before that, I had never been in the winner’s circle more than three times on […]