Harry Hernandez – Jockey
Harry Hernandez knew he wanted to be a jockey since he was 4 years old and followed his father Andy Hernandez to the racetrack, and his dad is still riding in Puerto Rico. “Since I’ve been little, I’ve went with him to the morning workouts, to the racetrack,” Hernandez said. “Right after school I used […]
Ezequiel Lara – Jockey
Jockey Ezequiel Lara won his sixth race at Canterbury Park June 22 with Twilite Liason, kicking off his first racing season at Canterbury. “It feels good to get my first win here,” Lara said. “It was good to get out there and hopefully everybody else seeing that we can get more mounts and more opportunities.” […]
Kerri Raven – Trainer
Kerri Raven got into horse racing by “finding horses in her hometown,” Fergus, Ontartio. Her parents worked normal trade jobs, so Raven found horses on her own. She attended the jockey program at Humber College near Woodbine Racecourse before starting to travel and training endurance horses in France. “I didn’t really like racing at first […]
Happy Father’s Day!
Happy Father’s Day from Canterbury Park! We interviewed some father daughter duos on the backside at Canterbury Park to celebrate! Check out this interview with racehorse trainer Troy Bethke and his daughter Olivia. Check out this interview with pony rider Mackenzie Kane and her dad Steve. Here is an interview with horse trainer Joel Berndt […]
Xtreme Racing Stables – horse owners
by Natalie Hoepner Mike and Vicki McGowan, from Xtreme Racing Stables, were pulled into horse racing through racehorse trainer Joe Bera’s daughter, Dawn. She encouraged Mike and Vicki to visit Canterbury Park to see family horse Cassidilly race, advertising that her dad barbeques. Vicki wanted to “look at all the horses and see them” and […]
Crystal Conning – Jockey
Crystal Conning arrived late in the 2021 meet and is off to a good start in 2022. Check out this full interview:
CC Perkinson – Trainer
There is a new face at Canterbury Park! Meet CC Perkinson.
Scott Stevens – Canterbury Hall of Famer
Scott Stevens is a Canterbury Park Hall of Fame jockey who rode 6,570 thoroughbred races in Shakopee, winning 999. His career included both the Canterbury Downs and Canterbury Park years. Stevens retired from race riding in 2021 and recently took a new occupation – Jockey Agent. Find out more in this interview with Paul Allen.
Father and son racehorse owners – Balkrisna Sukharan and Jason Totaram
Balkrisna Sukharan grew up in Guyana and starting race riding as a jockey when he was 12 years old. Sukharan talked about how different racing is in South America: “over there you don’t have to be 21. You can race at 10 years old.” Coming to America in 1994, Sukharan knew he wanted to be […]
Mike Bolinger – Racehorse Trainer
Horse trainer Mike Bolinger has been coming to Canterbury Park since 2004, but he had been around horses well before that. Bolinger’s parents trained quarter horses in Iowa when he was a child and they would run the horses on the smaller tracks. “My dad actually broke horses that were thoroughbreds for a dentist that […]