Sunday Saratoga Connections
Most of the attention Sunday in the $20,000-added Cash Caravan Stakes was on defending champion Streak N Hot, Bob Morehouse winner Western Fun and a well-rested Naketa, making her first start in 13 months. That’s the fun of a 440-yard quarter horse dash, as Explosive Guns demonstrated with an explosive burst under Jorge Torres, enabling […]
Previewing the Festival Quarters
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The end of the meet is upon us, but 2012 will go out in style with the Minnesota Festival of Champions this weekend! Two of the restricted Minnesota-bred stakes races will feature quarter horses: the 18th running of both the Minnesota Quarter Horse Derby and Minnesota Quarter Horse Futurity. Sunday, September 2nd: Minnesota Quarter Horse […]
Quarter Horse Racing Winding Down
Canterbury’s 2012 quarter horse meet has essentially come to a close with only a couple of stakes races remaining. If you’ve become attached to these sprinters, don’t despair: the quarter horse meet at Prairie Meadows begins this weekend and runs through the end of October. Just four hours away in Altoona, Iowa, Prairie Meadows is […]
Streak N Hot Captures Caravan
What could have been more appropriate for the first running of the Cash Caravan Stakes in four years, this time for $22,050. In the winner’s circle afterwards was the trainer who last handled Cash Caravan. Handing him the winning trophy was a man who was there when Cash Caravan – Canterbury Park’s first Hall of Fame […]
The Cash Caravan Returns
Sunday marks the return of a race that has not been held at Canterbury Park in four years: the Cash Caravan Stakes. The Cash Caravan is restricted to Minnesota-breds, three-year-olds and up, running at the classic distance of 440 yards. Cash Caravan’s racing career spanned three years; the Welika Cash gelding earned over $80,000 in […]