QUARTER HORSES REIGN ON A CLOUDY DAY
BY JIM WELLS Maybe there is a spiritual side to horse racing, a sign from above on occasion or a nudge in a certain direction from a celestial force. After all, who directed a man to tap Bruce Lunderborg on the shoulder while he was video-taping a church service at St. John Lutheran Church […]
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 […]
Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity Centerpiece of Quarter Horse Schedule
The 29th edition of the $100,000 Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity on July 10 accentuates Canterbury Park’s 2016 American Quarter Horse stakes schedule, announced today by racetrack officials. Total purse money for the 13 stakes races is estimated to reach $600,000, making it a record quarter horse stakes season for the Shakopee, Minn. racetrack. “Canterbury Park […]
Eagles Span wins $141,100 Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity
Long shots prevailed Sunday in Canterbury Park’s richest quarter horse races of the season when 11 to 1 Fortune in a Wagon and 24 to 1 Feature a Runaway finished in a dead heat in the $50,000 Canterbury Park Quarter Horse Derby, and 23 to 1 Eagles Span won the $141,100 Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity. […]
A look at the Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity Qualifiers
The richest quarter horse race of the Canterbury Park season is July 6: The $122,000 Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity. Here is a look at the 10 qualifiers. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEJ7Vm5gHd8&w=560&h=315]
Ten Qualify for Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity
Unsafe weather conditions forced the cancellation of races 7 – 13 today. The six trials for the $122,375 Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity were however conducted before racing ceased. The final will be run July 6. As you can see from the results, the horses in race 6 had a huge advantage. By that point the […]
Savoring the Moment
The horses had been checked, watered, grazed and mudded down, so a weary husband and wife, still tickled by the evening results, headed home to bed, dead tired, with just enough energy left to issue a few thanks. “Me and Randy were in bed talking,” said Stacy Charette-Hill. “I said that the good Lord has […]
Torres Arrives in a Big Way
When Jorge Torres went to work last January for the Stacy Charette-Hill barn outside Lexington, Okla., he was biting at the bit, eager as all get out to raceride. That notion was firmly implanted, or at least the seeds, when he was a youngster, perhaps three or four, and an uncle gave him a leg up […]
Clean Sweep in Northlands
The best laid plans of mice and men – and quarter horse trainers – don’t always play out as they’re intended. And sometimes they do… just not as expected. Let’s call this one the second no contest of the night. Friday night in the richest quarter horse race in track history, the Mystic Lake Northlands Futurity, […]
