Win an Entry To $3m NHC this Saturday at Canterbury Park
With the Canterbury Park Racebook now re-opened and operating daily, the handicapping contest schedule is taking shape beginning with this Saturday’s $3 million National Horseplayers Championship Last Chance Qualifier contest. One entry to the Aug. 27-29, 2021 NHC will be awarded. The format is simple. Entry fee is $100 (plus $50 for those that do […]
Canterbury Park 2021 Racing Dates Approved By Minnesota Racing Commission
65-day Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse meet to run May 18 through Sept 16 Canterbury Park’s request for a 65-day 2021 thoroughbred and quarter horse racing season, May 18 through Sept. 16, was unanimously approved Thursday by the Minnesota Racing Commission. The Shakopee, Minn. track will conduct a Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday schedule with racing also […]
The Sky’s Not A Limit For This Jockey
Marcus Swiontek became interested in horse racing really by chance. He grew up in Jordan, Minnesota, just 14 miles down Highway 169 from Canterbury Park, yet the racetrack was never on his radar. Marcus happened to be flipping through TV channels on a Saturday afternoon in the mid-2000s and stumbled across the Kentucky Derby. “From […]
Gulfstream Park Championship Meet Begins; Claiming Crown Saturday
Winter racing continues to heat up with the opening of the Gulfstream Park Championship Meet on Wednesday. Racing will be conducted every Wednesday through Sunday through March 28. Saturday at Gulfstream features the Claiming Crown, an event that began at Canterbury Park in 1999 showcasing the ‘working class heroes’ of the sport. It has grown […]
Canterbury Park to Temporarily Suspend Operations Beginning Friday, November 20
Canterbury Park Holding Corporation, (NASDAQ: CPHC) (“Canterbury Park” or the “Company”), announced today that, in compliance with the November 18, 2020 executive order from Minnesota Governor Walz requiring temporary closure of places of public accommodation as a measure to slow the spread of COVID-19, the Company will temporarily suspend all Casino, simulcast and special events […]
Canterbury Park Requests 65-Day Racing Season For 2021
Canterbury Park racing officials have submitted a request to the Minnesota Racing Commission for 65 racing dates in 2021 beginning May 18 and running through Sept. 16. With the request came the caveat that future impacts associated with the COVID-19 pandemic may necessitate an amendment to the request. Horsemen purses are projected to return to […]
In The Money Handicapping Contest begins Saturday with Churchill Downs.
Hit the board in all 11 races at Churchill and win $200. The program begins at noon. Entry to the In The Money handicapping contest is $10. If no player does select a top-three runner is all races, the prize pool carries to the following Saturday and continues to do so until perfection is achieved […]
Bodenheimer, “just like a tiger”, readies for BC Juvenile Turf Sprint
“I’m so excited,” trainer Valorie Lund said yesterday about the upcoming Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland where her colt Bodenheimer will race in the $1 million BC Juvenile Turf Sprint at five and one-half furlongs. There are hundreds and hundreds of racehorse trainers in the country but few that make it to North America’s biggest thoroughbred […]
Lothenbach Named TOBA October Member of the Month
Bloodhorse.com reported yesterday that racehorse owner Robert Lothenbach of Eden Prairie, Minn. was named Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Association October Member of the Month. Reporter Carly Silver offered a detailed history of the owner and breeder including Lothenbach’s recent success with Grade 1 winner and likely Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint entrant Bell’s the […]
A Warehouse of Breeders’ Cup Information
For those that like statistics and information, the Breeders’ Cup Media Center is worth a look. Thorough recaps from each year can be found as well as searchable database with all sorts of data. For example, there has been one Minnesota bred to run in the Breeders’ Cup. Booly competed in the 1992 Juvenile Fillies and […]