Olmstead, Garcia, Maher win $80,400 Northlands Futurity and $50,075 Canterbury Park Quarter Horse Derby
Relentless Robin takes Derby; Relentless Rocket wins Futurity Owner Tom Maher, trainer Jason Olmstead and jockey Ramiro Garcia teamed up to win the $80,400 Northlands Futurity with Relentless Rocket and the $50,075 Canterbury Park Quarter Horse Derby with Relentless Robin on Thursday at Canterbury Park. The Futurity winner paid $3.60, winning the richest race of […]
With a majority of entrants, Olmstead will be a force in Northlands Futurity and Canterbury Park Quarter Horse Derby
Top trainer has three fastest qualifiers in each race Thursday’s program at Canterbury Park features the two richest quarter horse races of the season: the $80,400 Northlands Futurity at 350 yards and the $50,075 Canterbury Park Quarter Horse Derby at 400 yards. Leading trainer Jason Olmstead qualified five 2-year-olds for the Futurity and six 3-year-olds […]
Jess Rocket Man favored in Cash Caravan Stakes
Olmstead seeks to win race seventh consecutive time Jess Rocket Man, a 6-year-old thoroughbred gelding owned and bred in Minnesota by Bruce and Judy Lunderborg’s Lunderborg LLC, is the 2 to 5 morning line favorite to win Thursday’s $22,000 Cash Caravan Stakes at 440 yards. The stakes will be the eighth race on a nine-race […]
North Star State Derby and Futurity kick off mixed meet Thursday
Top trainer Olmstead looks for fourth consecutive futurity win Canterbury Park will now run races for both thoroughbred and quarter horses as the mixed meet begins Thursday night with a pair of quarter horse races, the $22,800 North Star State Derby and the $23,200 North Star State Futurity, concluding the eight-race program. First post is […]
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 […]
Olmstead Seeks Continued Dominance in North Star State Futurity and Derby
Canterbury’s eight-time training champion could three-peat in each race The $23,600 North Star State Futurity and $22,000 North Star State Derby will each be run for the third time when the quarter horse racing season begins Wednesday night at Canterbury Park and trainer Jason Olmstead has never lost either race. Olmstead, currently among the top […]
Jess Rocket Man Could Dominate $38,600 Cash Caravan Stakes
With two scratches possible in Thursday’s $38,600 Cash Caravan Stakes, Jess Rocket Man figures to be the prohibitive favorite in the 440-yard race restricted to quarter horses bred in Minnesota. Trainer Jason Olmstead indicated that he likely will scratch 4-year-old Jess Rocket Man’s older full brother Dickey Bob and younger full brother Averys Rocket, all […]
Trainer Jason Olmstead Wins North Star State Derby and Futurity
Relentless Legacy takes Derby; Beep Beep Rev Rev by a length in Futurity Trainer Jason Olmstead won the first three quarter horse races of the Canterbury Park season Wednesday. The seven-time training champion scored his first win of the night with maiden Chloes Magic who paid $3.80. His second came in the $28,000 North Star […]
Dickey Bob Again Best in $38,900 Cash Caravan Stakes
Maudest Maven wins The 1889 Futurity Dickey Bob, a six-year-old Minnesota bred quarter horse, won the $38,900 Cash Caravan Wednesday night at Canterbury Park. This was the third Cash Caravan win in four years for Dickey Bob, who is owned and was bred by Judy and Bruce Lunderborg of Gibbon, Minn. He also won the […]
Trainer Jason Olmstead sweeps two quarter horse stakes
Tuesday night at Canterbury Park belonged to the track’s leading quarter horse trainer Jason Olmstead as he swept the co-featured Skip Zimmerman Memorial Stakes and the North Star State Futurity. Juice Is Loose won the $28,500 Skip Zimmerman by one-half length under Edwin Escobedo for owners Tom Maher and Stephen Williams, covering 350 yards in […]
