EXTREME DAY A WILD, WOOLY, FEATHERY AFFAIR
BY JIM WELLS It has been proposed once before and this additional suggestion is not based on settled science but on mounting evidence: Canterbury should consider running a 67-day meet featuring ostrich, zebra and camel racing each year, mixing in a thoroughbred/quarter horse day here and there. Evidence suggests that would reverse what is now […]
Extreme Memories
By Noah Joseph Saturday is Extreme Race Day, a highlight of the year at Canterbury Park, now in its 11th edition. It’s a wild and wacky day for all featuring camel, ostrich, and zebra races. The first Extreme Race Day was held in 2007, and I was there at age nine. So this is a […]
STRIPES, HUMPS and FEATHERS COLOR THE DAY
Here’s some advice for our draught-stricken brethren in California: Throw a big event. You’ll get all the water you can stand. Hey, it works in Minnesota….at Canterbury Park. There was the distinct possibility, with the gray skies turning darker by the moment, that another Canterbury event might get washed out on Saturday, the […]
Extreme Day features The Battle of the Surfaces
Canterbury Park’s Extreme Race Day, now in its eighth year, will be held Saturday, July 19. Exhibition races with camels, ostriches, and zebras have become the main draw on Extreme Day, last year’s attendance was a record 20,291, but this season the program will include the return of ‘The Battle of the Surfaces.’ This pari-mutuel […]
