Canterbury Fans Get Their Own Show
BY JIM WELLS There was a race on the undercard of the Preakness Stakes Saturday that featured an astounding runner named Mitole, the swiftest 3-year-old sprinter in the country, a colt with a dazzling turn of speed. Mitole put on a show for anyone watching, leaving an entire field of horses in his wake after […]
Yeah, You Know…
It was the kind of day Dark Star would have approved of without qualification. It was all about him. From the large gathering in the President’s suite, assembled In his honor, to the absurdly large congregation in the winner’s circle after the race named in his honor, which was preceded by countless stories about him and […]
Remembering Dark Star
On the morning before the 144th running of the Belmont Stakes, the racing community at Canterbury Park said goodbye and paid its respects to a man who would not only have been present but at his boisterous best if fate had not intervened. There was after all the disappointing defection of a horse pointed toward […]
