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Cash Caravan Stakes will now be run Saturday, Sept. 9

Wednesday cancellation causes move for 440-yard Minnesota bred race When Canterbury Park officials canceled racing Wednesday due to excessive heat, lost was the $20,000-added Cash Caravan Stakes, a 440-yard race restricted to quarter horses bred in Minnesota. The Cash Caravan will now be run Saturday, Sept. 9 as part of the Minnesota Festival of Champions […]

Sunday Saratoga Connections

Most of the attention Sunday in the $20,000-added Cash Caravan Stakes was on defending champion Streak N Hot, Bob Morehouse winner Western Fun and a well-rested Naketa, making her first start in 13 months. That’s the fun of a 440-yard quarter horse dash, as Explosive Guns demonstrated with an explosive burst under Jorge Torres, enabling […]

Streak N Hot Captures Caravan

What could have been more appropriate for the first running of the Cash Caravan Stakes in four years, this time for $22,050. In the winner’s circle afterwards was the trainer who last handled Cash Caravan. Handing him the winning trophy was a man who was there when Cash Caravan – Canterbury Park’s first Hall of Fame […]

The Cash Caravan Returns

Sunday marks the return of a race that has not been held at Canterbury Park in four years: the Cash Caravan Stakes. The Cash Caravan is restricted to Minnesota-breds, three-year-olds and up, running at the classic distance of 440 yards. Cash Caravan’s racing career spanned three years; the Welika Cash gelding earned over $80,000 in […]