Canterbury Park 2024 Racing Dates Approved by Minnesota Racing Commission
54-day meet will run May 18 through Sept. 28 Canterbury Park’s request for a 54-day 2024 horse racing season, Saturday, May 18 through Saturday, Sept. 28, was unanimously approved today by the Minnesota Racing Commission. Racing will be conducted on Thursdays and Saturdays at 5 p.m. central and Sundays at 1 p.m. Three Wednesdays will […]
Canterbury Park Backstretch Project Moving Right Along
With the unseasonably warm and dry weather in Minnesota, much progress has been made on the $15m backstretch redevelopment and improvement project. Several pieces of the plan came to fruition last spring and summer with the redesign of the training track, installation of main track and paddock area lighting and construction of a 36-room dormitory. […]
Four Retirees Not Soon Forgotten
Over the past decade Canterbury Park racing fans and gamblers have watched and wagered on some of the most popular and richest racehorses in the history of the track. Hold for More, who raced under the care of Francisco Bravo, is on that list. Mr. Jagermeister is as well. His brilliant speed earned hundreds of […]
Canterbury Park Plans for 54 Race Dates in 2024
Meet would run May 18 through Sept. 28; Overnight purses to increase 10 percent Canterbury Park is planning for a 54-day live race meet in 2024. Track officials have submitted a request to the Minnesota Racing Commission for a thoroughbred and quarter horse season that would run from Saturday, May 18 through Saturday, Sept. 28. […]
$15 million backstretch redevelopment continues in preparation for 2024 racing season
Construction of three 108-stall barns underway at Canterbury Park Canterbury Park’s $15 million stable area and racing infrastructure improvement project continued this week with construction work beginning on three new barns that will be home to more than 300 horses in the 2024 racing season. The barn construction project continues a busy off-season of upgrades […]
MN Bred Earning Leader Crosses Finish Line As Winner
When 9-year-old Hot Shot Kid crossed the finish line a winner on Sept. 4 in the eighth race at Canterbury Park, he became the all-time Minnesota bred earnings leader. In a career that began in 2016, Hot Shot Kid raced 54 times, winning 17 for trainer Mac Robertson while earning $708,816. Ten of those victories […]
Trainers Depart To Shakopee As Horse Racing Season Ends
The 2023 Canterbury Park meet came to an end Saturday night. There were just over 700 horses on grounds last week with vans leaving daily. The exodus continued in earnest on Sunday and by week’s end the once-bustling backstretch will be a relative ghost town until next spring. Some horses will be turned out and […]
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. […]
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 […]
