Diamonds Are an Owner’s Best Friend
By Noah Joseph One of the most recognizable silks at Canterbury Park in recent times has been blue silks with a red diamond cluster and red diamonds on the sleeves. Those are the silks of Bob Lothenbach, who races under Lothenbach Stables. Lothenbach Stables is a top owner of horses throughout the Midwest and parts […]
Canterbury Park 2017 Thoroughbred Stakes Schedule
$200,000 Mystic Lake Derby Aug. 26; 24th Minnesota Festival of Champions Aug. 20 Canterbury Park’s 2017 thoroughbred stakes schedule will include 32 races and more than $2 million in purses. The richest race of the season, the $200,000 Mystic Lake Derby, will be run Saturday, Aug. 26. Long a fixture on the schedule, the Minnesota […]
One Mean Man favored in Saturday’s Commonwealth Turf
The 2016 Mystic Lake Derby winner, One Mean Man, is favored in a field of 12 for Saturday’s $100,000 G3 Commonwealth Turf Stakes at Churchill Downs. Since capturing Canterbury’s richest race in August, One Mean Man won the Jefferson Cup, a Churchill dirt stake. Robby Albarado has the mount for trainer Bernard Flint. In a […]
Robby Albarado
Robby Albarado came to Shakopee for the Mystic Lake Derby card and canterburylive.com caught up with this well-decorated rider who provided insight into his success. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjSpfPDyPvM&w=560&h=315]
MYSTIC LAKE DERBY A THRILLER
BY JIM WELLS Have a good day Orlando Mojica. Better yet. Have a really good day. He could only shake his head and smile, wiping the perspiration from his face and forehead. Saturday started out on a good note. He picked up a mount in the $200,000 Mystic Lake Derby, Canterbury Park’s richest race of […]
Way Striking 6 to 1 in Saturday's Mystic Lake Derby
Way Striking, trained by Robertino Diodoro, steps up in class to face eight others in Saturday’s Mystic Lake Derby. The speedy 3-year-old will be ridden by Daniel Vergara. Way Striking has won twice on the dirt and recently ran fourth in his lone turf try. Diodoro discusses the chances of this improving 3-year-old. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd32rtrF08A&w=560&h=315]
$200,000 Mystic Lake Derby is Saturday
Post positions were drawn Wednesday for the richest race of the Canterbury Park season, the fifth running of the $200,000 Mystic Lake Derby. The one mile turf race will be run Saturday as the fourth race on a nine-race card that begins at 6:00 p.m. Nine 3-year-olds were entered, including multiple stakes winner One Mean […]
HD comes to Canterbury; 10-second odds intervals provide current information
Canterbury Park racing officials continue to unveil changes that will position it as one of the most horseplayer-friendly tracks in the country. In April it was announced that takeout had been restructured for the upcoming meet, making Canterbury’s takeout the lowest in the nation on average. Canterbury Park officials today announced more news related to […]
A COLORFUL, UNEXPECTED DERBY FINISH
BY JIM WELLS The pageantry, colors and festive nature of the Mystic Lake Derby, replete with more and more aspects of American Indian Culture, have made this day the piece de resistance of the summer racing season in Shakopee. The Derby is the race of the season because of Mystic Lake’s financial involvement, and the […]
$200,000 Mystic Lake Derby Field Set for Saturday
Season’s richest race draws seven 3-year-olds Post positions were drawn Wednesday for the fourth running of the $200,000 Mystic Lake Derby to be run Saturday at Canterbury Park. Seven 3-year-olds were entered for the one-mile turf race, the sixth race on an eight race card which begins at 4:00 p.m. The Mystic Lake Derby […]