Hall of Fame Jockey Chris McCarron hosts Leg Up Fundraiser
National Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron, who twice won the Kentucky Derby, will host a Casino Night Fundraiser Tuesday, April 26 at Canterbury Park to benefit the Leg Up Fund. Established in 2014, the Leg Up Fund provides emergency financial assistance to jockeys injured while riding at the Shakopee, Minn. racetrack. The Casino […]
Road to Kentucky Contest Week 10 Recap – CUPID
“When Baffert ships there (Oaklawn Park), he’s doing one of two things. He’s going there with live horses, and he’s also exposing the competition.” – Mike Watchmaker from Daily Racing Form after selecting Cupid to win the Rebel Stakes. The contest track for Road to Kentucky Week 10 was Oaklawn Park for the featured Rebel […]
HELP THE LEG UP FUND TODAY
Buy a win picture from a Canterbury Park Hall of Fame breeder/owners’s extensive collection, or maybe take on a wrestler from the professional circuit and demonstrate that he’s all wet in the dunk tank. Maybe you need a stone jockey statue for the doorway to the barn or next to the front steps from the […]
Race Fans, Horse Owners, Trainers Assist Injured Jockeys with Leg Up Fund
In 2014, Minnesota’s quarter horse and thoroughbred racing contingents along with racetrack officials and members of the jockey colony formed the Leg Up Fund. Their intent was to create a permanent fund to provide emergency financial assistance to jockeys injured in the performance of their profession at Canterbury Park. The assistance is provided to riders […]
VON ROSEN PART OF LEG UP FUND RAISER
BY JIM WELLS Anne Von Rosen was on the phone from Fulda, Germany, north of Frankfort, where she was visiting for her mother’s birthday. Earlier in the day she had gone for an hour-long horseback ride. “I rode without holding on today,” she said. Without holding on. Von Rosen was paralyzed in an accident as […]
INCLUDED WITH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION
BY JIM WELLS All that was absent was buttered popcorn, a large Pepsi, maybe some Milk Duds and a plush recliner seat. Cinema, theater, the movies, the show… call it what you like, it doesn’t get any better, not in the opinion of some of Canterbury’s leading lights. Saturday’s third race was not only […]
INJURIES INCLUDE FINANCIALTROUBLE FOR RIDERS
Organizers met Thursday afternoon for a planning session on the Leg Up Fund being established at Canterbury Park to benefit jockeys sidelined by racing injuries. Unlike many other sports, riders have only limited benefits during convalescence from injuries and are pretty much on their own. Unlike many other sports, jockeys don’t get paid if […]
Leg Up Fund
Fans place a certain amount of faith and trust in the riders aboard the horses they wager on each racing day at Canterbury Park. In a reversal of that expectation, it is the riders who believe that fans will participate any way they can in the Leg Up Fund that is being established today at […]
