Live Horse Racing Begins At Canterbury Park May 3 and 4
66-day meet runs through Sept. 14 and includes popular promotional days Canterbury Park will celebrate its 25th season of live horse racing with a two-day opening weekend, Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4. Saturday also includes a simulcast of the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby from Churchill Downs, the most well-known race in […]
Party Time For Racetrackers In Phoenix
A recent party at the homestead of Oscar Quiroz and Tiffany Leggett just off Greenway Road in Phoenix celebrated a couple of events, the 25th birthday of jockey Denny Velazquez, and his departure as well….an abbreviated departure but a departure nonetheless. Velazquez, who is having a bang-up meet at Turf Paradise, his best ever, has […]
Canterbury Park and Minnesota HBPA Unite To Prioritize Racehorse Ownership and Retirement
Funding and support from both organizations will enhance state’s racing industry Officials of Canterbury Park and Minnesota Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, which represents owners and trainers at the Shakopee, Minn. racetrack, have united to provide funding to develop a comprehensive approach to encourage thoroughbred horse ownership, both during and after the racing career. This […]
Mr. Jagermeister Fires A Bullet At Oaklawn and Races Thursday
The 2018 Canterbury Park Horse of the Meet, Mr. Jagermeister, recorded a bullet four furlong work this morning at Oaklawn Park and has been entered to race on Thursday at the Hot Springs, Arkansas racetrack. “He looked awesome,” trainer Valorie Lund said. “He just floated over the track. When he got back he couldn’t have […]
Jockey Colony Coming Together for 2019
Tampa Bay Downs race caller Richard Grunder was enjoying a beautiful April afternoon……..in Tampa, when he answered the phone. “I saw you on the news but it can’t be as bad as they say. How’s the weather up there?” he asked. Paul Allen, the Grunder equivalent at Canterbury, was on the other end. “It’s a […]
Canterbury Park Enhances Starter Incentive Program for 2019
Preparation for the 25th season of horse racing at Canterbury Park, which begins May 3, is well underway. Officials recently announced enhanced incentives to lure trainers and owners with race-ready thoroughbreds to the Shakopee, Minn. racetrack by offering programs that will reward those that arrive and start horses early in the meet, pay more purse […]
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 […]
Canterbury Park 2019 Stakes Schedule Features Record MN Festival of Champions Purses
Canterbury Park’s 2019 thoroughbred stakes schedule includes 31 races worth $2.235 million and will again cluster many of the most popular and lucrative races on single days. The Shakopee, Minn., horse track’s richest race, the $200,000 Mystic Lake Derby on Saturday, June 22, will be the highlight of the Northern Stars Racing Festival along with […]
Flash Back/ Fast Forward
Arguably the most anticipated horse race in the past five years at Canterbury Park was conducted Sept. 16, 2017, the final day of that meet. The $80,000 Shakopee Juvenile at a distance of six furlongs. A showdown between Amy’s Challenge and Mr. Jagermeister. Amy’s Challenge was a 2-year-old filly that had raced just once five […]
Joel Berndt Sizzling in the New Year
Joel Berndt has experienced the highs and lows, the ups and downs, of a thoroughbred racehorse trainer during a career that began in 1991 at Fonner Park. As in all sports there is a premium on winning; but in racing a high hit rate is very difficult to attain when you face multiple opponents, all […]