Merit Badge impressive in Northern Lights Futurity win at Canterbury Park; Jockey Manuel Americano wins three of six MN Festival of Champions stakes
Canterbury Park hosted the 33rd Minnesota Festival of Champions, a program of racing dedicated to racehorses bred in the state, on Saturday evening. Leading jockey Manuel Americano, in his first season at Canterbury, won three of the six stakes including a 14 1/2 length romp aboard Merit Badge (pictured above) in the $80,000 Northern Lights […]
33rd Minnesota Festival of Champions Saturday at Canterbury Park; Six state-bred restricted stakes with purses totaling $380,000
Canterbury Park will host the 33nd running of the Minnesota Festival of Champions on Saturday. The Festival began in 1992 with purses dedicated to horses bred in the state and is the centerpiece of racing each season at the Shakopee, Minn. racetrack. The eight-race program begins at 5:10 p.m. CDT. Canterbury’s Pick 5, with an […]
Sheza a Sugar Momma wins $46,600 Minnesota QH Futurity; Spicy Cartel takes $48,000 Minnesota QH Derby
Sheza a Sugar Momma won her third futurity of the Canterbury Park mixed-meet by capturing the $46,600 Minnesota Quarter Horse Futurity Thursday. Earlier in the meet she won the $49,000 MQHRA Stallion Auction Futurity and the $29,000 North Star State Futurity. The 2-year-old filly is owned by Tom Maher and Paul Luedemann. She is trained […]
MN Festival of Champions Week at Canterbury Park begins Thursday with Quarter Horse Stakes
Canterbury Park’s annual Minnesota Festival of Champions gets underway Thursday featuring a pair of quarter horse stakes and continues Saturday with six thoroughbred stakes. The Festival of Champions began in 1992, dedicating purse money exclusively to horses bred in the state. It has remained the centerpiece of the meet each season. Thursday’s eight race program […]
Why So Political wins $59,400 Northlands Futurity; Ding Dang Dulce by a nose in $36,675 Canterbury Park Quarter Horse Derby at Canterbury Park
Why So Political, one of seven horses trained by Jason Olmstead, won the $59,400 Northlands Futurity by one length covering 350 yards in 17.823 seconds. Gonzalo Valles Jr. was aboard for owner Cavenaugh Quarter Horses, LLC. The fastest qualifier in trials held two weeks ago, Why So Political broke inwardly from the starting gate but […]
Olmstead’s Seven Imposing in $59,400 Northlands Futurity Thursday at Canterbury Park
Quarter Horse trainer Jason Olmstead will saddle seven 2-year-olds, including the five fastest qualifiers, in the $59,400 Northlands Futurity Thursday at Canterbury Park. The Northlands is the co-feature along with the $36,675 Canterbury Park Quarter Horse Derby in which Olmstead is favored with Uncle Redheads, one of his four qualifiers in the 400 yard race. […]
That Type Ofa Deal provides upset in Minnesota Derby at Canterbury Park
That Type Ofa Deal raced in the back of the four-horse Minnesota Derby field only looking like a winner inside the sixteenth pole of the 1 mile 70 yard race when, under leading jockey Manuel Americano, the 3-year-old Minnesota-bred surged past pace-setter Navarre and rail-hugging Perfect Gamble to a one-length win in the $75,000 stake […]
Trainer Tony Rengstorf seeks first Minnesota Derby win Saturday at Canterbury Park
Tony Rengstorf has trained racehorses at Canterbury Park since 1990, winning multiple stakes races along the way. One race that has eluded the Minnesota native is the Minnesota Derby, the premiere 3-year-old race for state-breds conducted annually at the Shakopee racetrack. Saturday evening he will saddle 4 to 5 morning line favorite How Bout That […]
Purse increases for Minnesota Festival of Champions Sept. 5; MN Breeders’ Fund Advisory committee authorizes added money
The Minnesota Breeders’ Fund Thoroughbred Advisory Committee has authorized the addition of $5,000 MBF dollars to each of the six thoroughbred Minnesota Festival of Champions stakes races on Saturday, Sept. 5. The advisory committee also approved adding $2,000 to the two undercard state-bred races that night. The Minnesota Breeders’ Fund has a projected underpayment this […]
Northlands Futurity and Quarter Horse Derby trials Thursday at Canterbury Park; Trainer Jason Olmstead expected to be a force; Hobbs brings Ding Dang Dulce to derby heats
Two pairs of trials will be run Thursday at Canterbury Park qualifying quarter horses for finals on Aug. 20. Races 1 and 2 at 400 yards will send the 10 fastest 3-year-olds to the $36,675 Canterbury Park Quarter Horse Derby while 2-year-olds compete at 350 yards in races 3 and 4 to determine 10 finalists […]