Eagle Deluxe Wins $52,600 NCQHRA Futurity
Eagle Deluxe won the $52,600 North Central Quarter Horse Racing Association Futurity on Sunday at Canterbury Park. The 2-year-old quarter horse colt is trained by Jason Olmstead, who has now won this race each of the last four years. Berkley Packer was aboard the longshot that returned $25.00 to win in the nine-horse field. He […]
Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity Offers Record Purse
by Katie Merritt The 6th race on Sunday is the 350 yard, $167,600 Mystic Lakes Northlands Futurity, the last of six Quarter Horse races on the card and the richest Quarter Horse race to ever be run at Canterbury Park or Downs dating back to the inaugural edition in 1986. The eight fillies and two […]
News and Notes for May 28
There were three Quarter Horse trial races yesterday, the first three Q races of the meet. The trial races qualified the fastest 10 horses for the Gopher State Derby. Of those 10 qualifiers, four of them (One Famous Sign, Corona Springs, Heza Prospect and Eyes A Racin) are trained by last year’s leading Quarter Horse […]
QUARTER HORSES, BUCKLES AND HATS
By Jim Wells With the number of big, silver belt buckles and Resistol hats on display Sunday, it might resemble Las Vegas during National Finals Rodeo week to a number of folks, yet not much else will suggest that the proceedings under way belong at the Thomas & Mack Center. Jim Olson, a former […]
Jason Olmstead: Canterbury's Leading Quarter Horse Trainer
By: Megan Johnson Training duo, Jason Olmstead and his wife, Amber Olmstead, won the quarter horse training title in 2015 and are keeping the competitive field high, as they lead the current standings for this year’s meet. This season they have more than 60 horses in their barn. Jason took time last week to answer […]
YOUNGEST OLMSTEAD LEARNS THE ROPES
by JIM WELLS Whenever his dad has horses running, young Ryder Olmstead takes up residence in the photography studio located in the bowels of the grandstand, usually behind the counter where transactions take place. Fortunate customers or bystanders are sometimes treated, if their timing is right, to one of his impersonations of Paul Allen, […]