Olmstead Saddles Seven in $57,156 MQHRA Stallion Auction Futurity Thursday
Quarter horse trainer Jason Olmstead has the makings for a very good night Thursday at Canterbury Park. He has seven 2-year-olds in the $57,156 MQHRA Stallion Auction Futurity and entered two in the $22,400 Bob Morehouse Stakes. Olmstead ran nine horses in the MQHRA Futurity trials June 24 and qualified seven including the six fastest […]
Mixed Meet begins Wednesday at Canterbury Park with two Quarter Horse Races
Hall of Fame trainers Olmstead and Hardy look for fast start With seven thoroughbred race days already in the books, Canterbury Park will begin the mixed meet portion of its 51-day season Wednesday. Nine races have been carded, seven for thoroughbreds and two for Minnesota bred quarter horses, the $29,000 North Star State Futurity and […]
Dickey Bob headlines $22,800 Bob Morehouse Stakes Wednesday at Canterbury Park
Richest Minnesota-bred quarter horse has won race three times Dickey Bob is the 9 to 5 morning line favorite in Wednesday’s $22,800 Bob Morehouse Stakes at 350 yards, a race he won each season from 2018 through 2020. The 8-year-old Minnesota-bred gelding settled for runner up the past two years, losing in 2022 to his […]
Racebook Action Galore
Santa Anita delayed its autumn race meet due to fires in the nearby hills but commences Friday at 2:30 p.m. with a 10-race program that includes the G3 Chillingsworth Stakes and the G2 Eddie D. On Saturday, Santa Anita rolls out five graded stakes, all with Breeders’ Cup implications: G2 Chandelier, G1 Rodeo Drive, G1 […]
Hardy, Olmstead Look To Continue Dominance In Festival Races, But First……..
Tomorrow is a new twist for the traditional Minnesota Festival of Champions quarter horse races, the Minnesota QH Derby and Minnesota QH Futurity. Trial races. In the past the Derby and Futurity entrants gained access to the races based on earnings. But now payments and sustaining payments made by hopeful owners begat trial races to […]
Canterbury Flavor In Prairie Meadows Stakes This Weekend
The Prairie Meadows quarter horse meet closes this week with racing Thursday through Saturday. The Friday card features four stakes races and Saturday’s evening program has nine including the Grade 1 Bank of America Challenge Championship with a $330,000 purse. Many of the stakes include horses that raced in Shakopee over the summer. The Grade […]
July 14 News and Notes
Alex Canchari was very efficient on Thursday while riding just three of the eight thoroughbred races and winning with all three mounts. Canchari took advantage of the break that followed the long July 4 race week and traveled to Los Angeles for some R and R. The broken right hand appears to have healed quickly […]
Corey Wilmes – Racehorse Owner and Breeder
By Katie Merritt For racehorse owner Corey Wilmes, horse racing has been a big part of his life since he was a young teenager. Wilmes grew up on a farm in Le Sueur, Minnesota, just south of Shakopee, and when Canterbury Downs first opened in the mid-80’s he was quick to secure a hotwalking […]
THE QUARTER HORSES HAVE THEIR DAY
BY JIM WELLS The day was dedicated to the Qs, the quarterpounders, or more appropriately and accurately, the quarter horses, those speedy sprinters on the racetrack who gobble up ground in the same fashion that Usain Bolt covers 100 yards. They are out of the blocks and rocketing toward the finish line in the blink […]
DELGADO LETS SUCCESS DO HIS TALKING
BY JIM WELLS The adrenaline was flowing and Oscar Delgado released it as he strode through the tunnel to the jockeys’ room after winning the first race on Saturday’s card. “That guy never stops talking and I should know because I talk a lot,” said a fellow rider. Yes, Delgado has never been accused […]
