A Night Full of Quarter Horse Racing Tuesday
Two trials will be conducted Tuesday for the Canterbury Park Quarter Horse Derby with the 10 fastest horses qualifying for the Aug. 11 final. The final will be the 33rd running of the QH Derby dating back to the inaugural in 1986. That race was won by 3-year-old Throb for owner Pine Tree Racing Stable. […]
Fastest Day In Minnesota Sports Tuesday With Six Quarter Horse Stakes
All quarter horse program includes Grade 3 BOA Canterbury Park Championship Challenge Canterbury Park’s Tuesday racing program won’t take long or at least the races themselves won’t, as the 10-race program features quarter horse racing exclusively with distances ranging from 250 yards, usually clocking in at just over 13 seconds, to 870 yards. Track officials […]
Quarter Horse Racing Straight And Strong At Canterbury Park
American Quarter Horse racing continues to be an important component of the Canterbury Park racing season. The 2020 mixed-meet format will offer more than 100 races offered exclusively for America’s fastest athlete, the quarter horse. Total purses should near $1.8 million. While the first quarter horse condition book won’t be available until mid-May, owners and […]
Another Esqueda Joins Jockey Colony
BY JIM WELLS His throat and mouth were so dry that he could barely spit. His stomach acted as if he were on the Wild Thing across the way at Valley Fair, and the muscles in his arms and legs were in knots. “I couldn’t even move in the paddock,” he said. “I couldn’t believe […]
Esqueda Returns To Canterbury With A Rush
BY JIM WELLS There is the front or back nine on a golf course, there is ninefold to express a given quantity times, yes, nine; there is a starting lineup consisting of nine in baseball and there is a ninepin bowling designation. The number applies with equal significance to the number of horses sired by […]
Canterbury Park 2019 Quarter Horse Stakes Schedule
Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity one of seven stakes on Fastest Day in Minnesota Sports, July 7 Canterbury Park’s quarter horse racing stakes schedule was announced today and includes 17 races during the 66-day season that begins May 3. The premier race, the Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity, with a purse estimated to reach $150,000, will be […]
Jason Olmstead Wins Another Training Title
By Rebecca Roush With 21 wins this season, trainer Jason Olmsted certainly knows his way to the winner’s circle. This will be his fourth straight champion quarter horse training title at Canterbury Park. The Olmstead barn is currently filled with 45 horses, but with the quarter horse portion of the meet concluding soon the 39-year-old […]
Tom Pouliot Has A Very Fast Quarter Horse
By Rebecca Roush Growing up on a five-acre hobby farm in Maple Grove, racehorse owner Tom Pouliot had always been around the sport. His parents owned racehorses and others that he would barrel race. They started out racing the horses at “small bush tracks,” at the Anoka County Fairgrounds, and in Lake Elmo and Wadena, […]
Scheckel Knows How To Make A Shekel
BY JIM WELLS One of his trainers sizes it up simply as a numbers game. Or in metaphorical terms, if you shoot a lot of bullets you’re apt to hit the bulls-eye sometimes. There is more to the analysis than that, however, because Thomas J. Scheckel has been a horseman for as long as he […]
Cristian Esqueda Leads The Way On The Qs
By Rebecca Roush Leading quarter horse rider at Canterbury Park, Cristian Esqueda, grew up watching his father ride and train the Q’s. “I felt like I had big shoes to fill,” he said. At just 10-years-old Esqueda moved to Ohio with his family from Aguascalientes City, Mexico. Around the age of 13 Esqueda took a […]
