Hanson Qs Ready To Run Tuesday
Tuesday’s 12-race program is strictly quarter horses. Ninety-four have been entered. The wagering menu is expansive and includes an all-stakes pick four in races 5 – 8. Trainer Vic Hanson is well represented in all four races. He has been at this game for quite a while, experienced the ups and downs, and is ready […]
Vic Hanson
By Kristin Bechthold Having grown up riding and showing horses, Victor Hanson has been in the horse industry his entire life. He began his career colt breaking and working as a rodeo trainer, then made his way into racing in 1987 when he was breaking racehorses. “One thing lead to another,” he said with a […]
A Night of Records at Canterbury Park
Canterbury Park’s Thursday night race card produced a record payout of $161 for a $2 win wager and a handle record for a non-Claiming Crown racing program when more than $1.26 million was wagered on the 10 races. Congregation won the fourth race at odds of 79.5 to 1 resulting in the $161 payout. The […]
Catching Up With Trainer Vic Hanson
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Sunday Racing Musings
Once the obligations of winning such a race were attended to, once the handshakes, backslaps, hugs and nods of congratulation had been received, the interviews conducted and the rush of adrenaline subsided, there was time for family, close friends and the owners of the horse. Yes, there are duties concomitant with riding the winning horses […]
Local Shifts Tack Back to Home Track
You are clicking through television channels, one after another in search of something of interest and there it is, the 2004 Kentucky Derby and a horse named Smarty Jones. Your life is about to change but you don’t yet know it. It will change in ways you never imagined, one step at a time, leading […]
Mystic Lake Derby Day Nears
Go ahead and pick up the champagne, dig out the attire you wore last year for the race, careful to assure everything is the same, not a single accoutrement out-of-place, cross your fingers and don’t say anything that might be construed as a jinx. “My dad’s superstitious,” said Lori Keith. “It will have to be […]
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 […]
Cs Arc Light Takes Morehouse
There were lots of reasons that Cam Casby considered the $12,500-added Bob Morehouse Stakes a special race on Thursday night. #1 was the fact that the winning horse is the last one she and her mother bred together. #2 is the fact that her mother is in a Maplewood nursing home and unable to attend […]
Canterbury Trends & Statistics
The hot, humid summer continues and the Canterbury main track has consistently favored pure front-runners all year. The track bias for the last month shows dirt sprints and routes yielding wire-to-wire winners at a 45% clip, which is about double the national average. Even turf races are yielding 25% front running winners, which is about […]
