Robert Cline Likes Where He’s At
“It’s really all I’ve known,” said trainer Robert Cline when asked how about his origins in horse racing. His father Leon was a trainer for years, primarily in Arkansas, and when he passed away Robert’s mother Donna trained as well. “We cut our teeth for years [at Oaklawn],” he said. In those early years it […]
Jay Lietzau – Star Tribune Handicapper
Jay Lietzau has followed racing since the Canterbury Downs days of the ’80s. He has bet on thousands of races and handicapped tens of thousands more. He has participated in Canterbury College and various Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup seminars. This year Jay began to put what he has learned in the pages of the […]
The Bark Returns to Canterbury Park
Fireworks, camels, ostriches and dogs, lots of dogs, added to promotional schedule Horse racing at Canterbury Park continued in 2020 despite the coronavirus pandemic. The race meet was shortened and capacity was limited to 750 spectators but horse racing persevered. Lost were the promotional activities that enhance a day of horse races and boost attendance […]
Patience and Right Trip Land Dame Plata In the Winners’ Circle
It was an old-fashioned throw down, a battle royal even, in what might have been a run of the mill allowance race on a lazy afternoon. Instead three of the best older Minnesota-bred horses in training met today in the third race under a hot summer sun. The race attracted a crowd along the walking […]
Lynn Deichert – The Bugler
Listen for the Call To The Post played by the bugler as the horses for each race enter the racetrack. It is a tradition across the country and readies the crowd for the action just minutes away. Last year during the pandemic, Canterbury used an audio recording and it simply was not the same even […]
Minnesota-Bred Stakes Stars Headline Sunday Racing
Sunday’s third race is not a stakes race but it sure feels like it. The four Minnesota breds, Mr. Jagermeister, Drop of Golden Sun, Dame Plata and Cinco Star, in the six-horse field are stakes winners and the Arizona bred Beat the Heat on the rail has a stakes win as well. The Kentucky bred […]
Fire N Guns Upset Winner of $40,400 Bob Morehouse Stakes
Three-time Morehouse winner Dickey Bob loses by a nose Longshot Fire N Guns defeated prohibitive favorite Dickey Bob by a nose in the $40,400 Bob Morehouse Stakes Monday at Canterbury Park. Six-year-old quarter horse Dickey Bob, who has won 11 of 17 starts at Canterbury, failed to win his fourth consecutive Morehouse when a late […]
Dickey Bob Favored To Win Fourth Bob Morehouse
Quarter horse racing returns Memorial Day Monday to Canterbury Park with a pair of races highlighted by the $35,000 Bob Morehouse Stakes. The field of 10 in this 350 yard dash, all Minnesota breds, includes three promising 3-year-olds as well as older runners with credentials but none more accomplished than 6-year-old Dickey Bob. The multiple […]
Lori Biehler On The Mend
Racing fans have for years known the jockey as Lori Keith. She has long been a fan favorite. Easily approachable by young fans inspired by her skills. She is now Lori Biehler, married to trainer Mike Biehler. Wednesday evening looked promising for Lori, having won race four aboard Rasmus by 9 1/2 lengths. “Things were […]
Best Kept Secret Provides Jockey Kelsi Harr With First Stakes Win
Lord Dragon closes for Brook Fields victory; Drena’s Star best in Honor the Hero Weather was no friend on Thursday to Canterbury Park which had three $50,000 turf stakes scheduled. Relentless rain in Shakopee that began in the early morning hours and continued into late afternoon forced those stakes races to be transferred from the […]