Shakopee Juvenile Stakes Purse Increased to $75,000
Race expected to include fastest 2-year-old in North America, Amy’s Challenge Canterbury Park racing officials today announced that the purse for the Sept. 16 Shakopee Juvenile Stakes will be increased to $75,000 from the originally announced $50,000. To encourage owners to enter state bred horses, a $25,000 bonus exclusively for horses foaled in Minnesota will […]
Eleven Entered in Saturday’s $200,000 Mystic Lake Derby
Canterbury Park’s richest race of the season, the $200,000 Mystic Lake Derby, will be run Saturday evening as the fourth race on a nine- race program that begins at 6:00 p.m. Eleven 3-year-olds were entered for the one-mile turf race. Giant Payday, the 7 to 2 morning line favorite, will start from post position nine […]
STATE STARS SHINE ON FESTIVAL DAY
BY JIM WELLS Steamy, muggy, humid. Or as mother used to say, “close.” Under those conditions, Canterbury Park conducted the 24th running of the Festival of Champions Sunday, an afternoon of racing restricted to Minnesota-bred horses and highlighted by a sensational two-year-old, a pair of full brothers who won the two quarter horse races, the […]
Canterbury Hosts 24th Minnesota Festival of Champions Sunday
The annual Minnesota Festival of Champions, a day restricted to the best racehorses bred in the state, will be held for the 24th time Sunday at Canterbury Park. The first of 11 races is scheduled to begin at 12:45 p.m.at the Shakopee, Minn. racetrack. A total of 94 horses have been entered to compete for […]
TITLES ON THE LINE AS 17 RACING DAYS REMAIN
BY JIM WELLS Update: Only 17 racing days left on the 2017 calendar. A mere two weeks of race days and change. Plenty of time for trainers to begin cleaning out their barns, sending out the horses that need a paycheck to cover their travel costs. Still time for others to achieve some unreached goals, […]
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 […]
The ROI All-Stars
By The Oracle We are nearing the halfway point of the 2017 Canterbury Park live racing season. Here is a look inside-the-numbers at what has transpired on the race track so far.. The following statistics are for thoroughbred races only. The Odds: Favorites are winning 35% of the thoroughbred races at Canterbury Park. This is […]
TEDDY TIME, SOME SAY SO STAKES WINNERS
BY JIM WELLS We have the ghost of Christmas past, the ghost in the attic, the spirit of Canterbury’s past…and now, as it turned out Monday night, the apparitions of Vikings then and now. Monday’s race card included two stakes named for horses that left that mark on racing history in Shakopee, the swift […]
WAR HEROES, PAST CHAMPIONS MEMORIALIZED
BY JIM WELLS While many Minnesotans were gathered around the grill in their backyards, around the cabin at the Lake, or visiting the local American Legion or VFW, patrons at Canterbury Park honored the servicemen and women for whom the day is reserved, while taking in a card that included two stakes races as well […]
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 […]