Festival of Champions at Canterbury Park will crown best Minnesota breds
-$855,000 in purses to be distributed in 12-race card- Entries for the 29th Minnesota Festival of Champions, a night of racing on Saturday, Sept. 10 at Canterbury Park restricted to thoroughbreds and quarter horses bred in the state, attracted a total of 107 horses for 12 races. Owners, jockeys and trainers of those entrants will […]
35 Race Days Complete – Live Racing Returns July 27
When last Sunday’s race program was complete, a total of 322 races had been run over the first 35 days of the meet. Thirty days remain when racing resumes Wednesday, July 27. The short break allows for the three-day Twin Cities Summer Jam music festival to be held in the racetrack infield tonight through Saturday. […]
Happy Father’s Day!
Happy Father’s Day from Canterbury Park! We interviewed some father daughter duos on the backside at Canterbury Park to celebrate! Check out this interview with racehorse trainer Troy Bethke and his daughter Olivia. Check out this interview with pony rider Mackenzie Kane and her dad Steve. Here is an interview with horse trainer Joel Berndt […]
Joel Berndt – Racehorse Trainer at Canterbury Park
Joel Berndt was leading trainer at Canterbury Park in 2020. He trained one of last year’s most electric 2-year-olds, Love the Nest. Track Announcer Paul Allen had a chance to visit with Joel before the start of the meet. Check it out here.
Love the Nest Impressive in $100k Northern Lights Futurity
Jockey Eikleberry wins twice on MN Festival of Champions Night Love the Nest, a 2-year-old colt trained by Joel Berndt and owned by Robert Lothenbach, powered to an impressive 7 1/4 length victory in Wednesday’s Northern Lights Futurity, one of six $100,000 statebred thoroughbred stakes on Minnesota Festival of Champions Night at Canterbury Park. Love […]
Hawthorne Meet Opens Friday With 35 Days Through Dec. 27
Hawthorne Race Course did not run a Spring meet in 2020 as the facility underwent a facelift that will eventually accommodate slot machines. The Chicagoland racecourse will however run a Fall season beginning this week with a Friday through Sunday schedule into December when the race week slims down to Saturday and Sunday only, through […]
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 […]
SWEET TAPPER, HAY DAKOTA SHINE IN STAKES
BY JIM WELLS The connections in horse racing are sometimes astounding as well as confounding and on a strange afternoon at the racetrack some of that played out during a card that featured exceptional stakes racing and some mind-boggling vignettes as well. Highlights are simple to point out: The two $100,000 stakes on the card, […]
Odds and Ends from the Weekend plus more to come….
Hold for More was victorious in this weekend’s running of the $50,000 10,000 Lakes Stake. He rated for the early parts of the race behind the three pacesetters, Cupid’s Delight, Bourbon County and Smooth Chiraz, before swinging four wide at the top of the stretch to overtake them all and win by a convincing 2 […]
Hay Dakota wins G3 Commonwealth Turf Stakes
Trainer Joel Berndt, a regular at Canterbury Park over the past years, won the first graded stakes race of his career when Hay Dakota stormed down the middle of the turf course Saturday evening at Churchill Downs, getting up to win the grade three $100,000 Commonwealth Turf Stakes by a neck at odds of 29 […]
