Canterbury Invaders Primary Reason To Watch Iowa Tonight
Prairie Meadows in suburban Des Moines, Iowa hosts a pair of $65,000 sprint stakes for 2-year-olds tonight and Canterbury winners will have a strong presence. Race 7 at Prairie, the Prairie Gold Juvenile, includes Richard Ronald , who will be ridden by Leandro Goncalves. He was aboard the colt June 19 when he crushed a […]
Mr. Jagermeister Favored To Repeat in 10,000 Lakes Stakes
A pair of $50,000 Minnesota-bred stakes sprints will be run Saturday at Canterbury Park: the 10,000 Lakes and the Lady Slipper. While the number of horses entered is small, five in the 10,000 Lakes and six in the Lady Slipper, the quality runs high with several of the best state-breds competing. The buzz is all […]
Significant Win at Oaklawn for Mr. Jagermeister
Mr. Jagermeister regained the luster of his 2018 season where he won four races at Canterbury Park and was named Horse of the Meet, by drawing off to win by 2 ¾ lengths Thursday at Oaklawn Park in a $92,000 allowance sprint. The Minnesota bred stopped the clock in 1:09.56 for six furlongs. And the […]
Mr. Jagermeister Fires A Bullet At Oaklawn and Races Thursday
The 2018 Canterbury Park Horse of the Meet, Mr. Jagermeister, recorded a bullet four furlong work this morning at Oaklawn Park and has been entered to race on Thursday at the Hot Springs, Arkansas racetrack. “He looked awesome,” trainer Valorie Lund said. “He just floated over the track. When he got back he couldn’t have […]
Mr. Jagermeister Returns To Action Saturday
Mr. Jagermeister, the Canterbury Park 2018 Horse of the Year, makes his 4-year-old debut Saturday in the $75,000 Phoenix Gold Cup, the seventh race that day at Turf Paradise. The Minnesota-bred colt drew post four in the six-horse field that includes three trained by Robertino Diodoro. However one of his, Bourbon Cowboy, is training at […]
Flash Back/ Fast Forward
Arguably the most anticipated horse race in the past five years at Canterbury Park was conducted Sept. 16, 2017, the final day of that meet. The $80,000 Shakopee Juvenile at a distance of six furlongs. A showdown between Amy’s Challenge and Mr. Jagermeister. Amy’s Challenge was a 2-year-old filly that had raced just once five […]
Canterbury Hosts 25th Minnesota Festival of Champions Sunday
Stakes purses boosted for state-bred best; Mr. Jagermeister 1 to 5 favorite in Classic Shakopee, Minn. — The 25th annual Minnesota Festival of Champions, a day restricted to racehorses bred in the state, will be held Sunday at Canterbury Park, offering the most purse money in event history. The purse for each of the eight […]
Wednesday Night Racing Joins Scene
BY JIM WELLS Something is about to happen at Canterbury Park that hasn’t taken place since the facility was known as Canterbury Downs. Wednesday racing. Wednesday cards were a regular occurrence in the Downs days, at least when the allure of racing and pari mutuel betting were new to the sports scene in Minnesota and […]
Peter Seals Plays The Claiming Game
By Rebecca Roush At just 8-years-old, Peter Seals was already skipping school and heading to Canterbury Downs with his horse-owning father, where he would often place bets for his catholic school nuns. Seals later followed in his father’s footsteps when he decided to purchase his first horse in partnership with trainer Jamie Ness. In 2008, […]
Will Mr. Jagermeister Run in Mystic Lake Derby?
After seeing success from Mr. Jagermeister last week, Valorie Lund is ready to try training him on the turf. Lund will look at how his breeze goes and get feedback from his rider to determine the best move. “A lot of running on the lawn is just being relaxed and he is very confident and […]
