Harry Hernandez Wins Five Races on Festival of Champions Night
Midnight Current defends Princess Elaine title; Xtreme Diva fastest 2-year-old Canterbury Park’s leading jockey Harry Hernandez won five of the 10 races Saturday on the Minnesota Festival of Champions program including three of the evening’s six stakes. His first stakes victory came in the $75,000 Blair’s Cove Minnesota Turf Championship taking Jose Patio gate to […]
MN Festival of Champions Pick 5 Depth Chart
Pro Football teams have depth charts. Paul Allen, race caller and radio voice of The Purple, has a Pick 5 Depth Chart for Saturday’s Minnesota Festival of Champions. He and Angela Hermann share the details. The 10% takeout Pick 5 begins in race 6.
Berndt 2-Year-Olds Favored in Northern Lights Futurity; Debutante entrant will be long shot
Joel Berndt, pictured above, won four Minnesota Festival of Champions races in 2022 and has won the Northern Lights Futurity three consecutive years. He trains the two morning line favorites in this year’s Futurity: Jonny B Goney at 5/2 and Frosty View at 3-1. Joel’s daughter and assistant trainer Kelsey visits with Betty Jo Goodwin […]
Can Midnight Current repeat in Princess Elaine Stakes?
Saturday’s $75,000 Princess Elaine features the best Minnesota bred turf fillies and mares in training. Thunders Rocknroll wired the field in the Minnesota Oaks racing on dirt but also sprinted to a turf win. She is all speed. Midnight Current is classy. She won the race last year and was voted Horse of the Meet. […]
30th Minnesota Festival of Champions Saturday at Canterbury Park
$500,000 in stakes purses paid to horses foaled in state Canterbury Park will celebrate the Minnesota breeding and horse racing industry on Saturday with the 30th rendition of the Minnesota Festival of Champions, a 10-race program restricted to horses bred in Minnesota. Six of the races are stakes with purses totaling $500,000. In all, 76 […]
Mo Mesa gets added ground in $100,000 Northern Lights Futurity
Mo Mesa ran evenly in his Aug. 26 debut, finishing third. Trainer Matt Williams expects an improvement Saturday in the $100,000 Northern Lights Futurity. Mo Mesa is a half brother to last year’s Debutante winner Lover Girl, also trained by Williams, and is owned and was bred by Gary and Brenda Bergsrud whose silks are […]
A Primera Vista and trainer Kerri Raven ready for $100k Debutante
A Primera Vista was the sales topper in the 2022 MTA Yearling Sale, purchased by trainer Kerri Raven. The filly broke her maiden on the turf at first asking at Delaware Park. Raven brought her to Shakopee for the $100,000 Northern Lights Debutante on Saturday where she is the 2 to 1 second choice on […]
Second Careers for Off The Track Thoroughbreds
When racehorses retire, many find a second career. Assistant trainer Kelsey Berndt seeks new homes for off the track thoroughbreds and explains the process in this video. To contact Kelsey visit her Facebook page. To donate to This Old Horse aftercare program visit here. To donate to Koch Thoroughbred Transformations, a Minnesota-based aftercare program or […]
Hot Shot Kid becomes richest Minnesota bred thoroughbred racehorse in history
Hot Shot Kid became the all-time leading Minnesota bred money earner in history when he won the eighth race on Monday at Canterbury Park. His career earnings now total $708,816, surpassing the retired Mr. Jagermeister who earned $700,839. Hot Shot Kid was bred in Minnesota by the late Warren Bush and is owned by his […]
Canterbury Park Moves Three Quarter Horse Stakes to Sept. 13
MN Futurity, MN Derby and Cash Caravan date changed at MQHRA request Canterbury Park racing officials, at the behest of the Minnesota Quarter Horse Racing Association board of directors, announced today that three Minnesota-bred quarter horse stakes races previously scheduled for Sept. 9 will now be run on Sept. 13. The $40,000 added Minnesota Futurity, […]