STATE STARS SHINE ON FESTIVAL DAY
BY JIM WELLS Steamy, muggy, humid. Or as mother used to say, “close.” Under those conditions, Canterbury Park conducted the 24th running of the Festival of Champions Sunday, an afternoon of racing restricted to Minnesota-bred horses and highlighted by a sensational two-year-old, a pair of full brothers who won the two quarter horse races, the […]
WALLY’S WORLD WAS SPECIAL
The Mike Biehler barn was at work digging up the shed row with pickaxes when one of the grooms predicted that Wally’s Choice would win his first attempt at a mile that day. The young gelding had run once at six furlongs, mostly at five furlongs and was making just his seventh start, so Biehler […]
2013 Festival Records & Repeats
The Festival of Champions has always been, from Day One, one of the best days of the race meet in Shakopee. Crowds, enthusiasm and competitive races are the order of the occasion. The Festival annually is one of the grandest days of the summer, including Sunday’s rendition that drew a crowd of 15,023 and record-setting off-track […]
“Nursing” Racehorses into New Careers
Andrea Keacher grew up in the city, in a residential neighborhood with all of its trappings and restrictions, yet nothing would deny her a childhood dream. Keep your dance lessons, your soccer and your other group sports! All she wanted was a horse. Nothing would change her mind. She was steadfast. “I dabbled in dance […]
