Fields Set For Northern Stars Turf Festival Saturday

Trainer Wesley Ward sends graded stakes winner Arrest Me Red for Dark Star Turf Sprint Canterbury Park will host the fourth annual Northern Stars Turf Festival on Saturday, June 22. The evening of racing includes five turf stakes or handicaps on an eight-race program that begins at 5:10 p.m. central. The Turf Festival has produced […]

Loveberry looks forward to return to Canterbury Park

Jockey Jareth Loveberry has a mount in all five turf stakes on Wednesday’s Northern Stars Turf Festival. He is anxious to return, and why would he not be? Loveberry was leading rider in 2017 and a top jockey at Canterbury until he left in 2020 to ride in Chicago. He has shipped in each year […]

Canterbury Park’s Northern Stars Turf Festival Wednesday, June 21

Five turf stakes including $100,000 Canterbury Derby attract local and national entries Entries were taken yesterday for the Northern Stars Turf Festival, Canterbury Park’s most prominent night of racing which will be conducted Wednesday, June 21. A nine-race program that begins at 5:07 p.m. central is headlined by the $100,000 Canterbury Derby at one mile […]

Minnesota-Bred Bens Malice Among 41 Nominated To $150,000 Mystic Lake Derby

Six stakes on June 22 will offer $610,000 in purses Nominations to the June 22 Mystic Lake Northern Stars Turf Festival closed Wednesday with a total of 223 horses nominated to six stakes races that will offer $610,000 in purse money. The marquee race, the $150,000 Mystic Lake Derby at one mile on the turf […]

Handicapping the Mystic Lake Derby with Optix EQ

by Emily Gullickson  – Optix EQ RACE 8 – MYSTIC LAKE DERBY: #1 KING OF MIAMI could hold a potential pace advantage in Quad I on the front end with the Snowflake Contention and lower 19 SpeedRate. He has improved with Rivelli and in his three-year-old season capable to move forward today in a third […]