Successful Canterbury Racing Season Concludes This Week
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday programs feature 326 horses in 34 races Canterbury Park’s 65-day racing season comes to an end with 5 p.m. programs Tuesday and Wednesday and a 4 p.m., 13-race program Thursday. General admission will be free the final three days as part of fan appreciation week to cap a season that began with […]
Canterbury Returns To Horse Racing Wednesday After Nine-Day Break
First 36 days of season show handle increases and stability Horse racing resumes Wednesday at Canterbury Park following a nine-day break while the Shakopee, Minn. entertainment facility hosted Twin Cities Summer Jam, a three-day music festival held in the racetrack infield. The pause allowed horse trainers and their equine counterparts to prepare for the final […]
2021 Canterbury Park Live Meet Preview
by The Oracle Follow The Oracle on Twitter at @Oracle 65 He will provide selections daily. Opening day of the 2021 Canterbury Park live racing meet is Tuesday, May 18! That means it’s time to look back at the 2020 Canterbury Park live meet from a statistical standpoint and use that data to help us […]
Industry-Low 10% Takeout On Pick 5 and Pick 6 at Canterbury Park
Wagers offered daily during 65-day meet that begins May 18 Canterbury Park officials announced today that the Shakopee, Minn. racetrack’s industry-low 10 percent takeout rate on the $.50 Pick 5 wager will return for the 2021 racing season and that a $1 Pick 6 wager, also with an industry-low 10 percent takeout, will be offered […]
Canterbury Park Announces 2021 Participation Incentive and Shipping Assistance Program
Open Race Overnight Starters in May to Receive Additional $1,000 Incentive Payment Canterbury Park racing officials, with support from the Minnesota HBPA, have announced new 2021 participation incentive programs designed to reward owners that send horses ready to race at the start of the meet. In addition, trainers and owners wishing to participate at the […]
Canterbury Park Offers $2 Million In Thoroughbred Stakes Purses For 2021
Mystic Lake Derby’s $150k purse is richest of 27 stakes; 2021 condition book now available featuring increased overnight purses Canterbury Park racing officials today announced that 27 stakes races with purses totaling $2,060,000 will be run during the 65-day 2021 race meet that begins May 18. The richest of the stakes is the $150,000 Mystic […]
Canterbury Park 2021 Racing Dates Approved By Minnesota Racing Commission
65-day Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse meet to run May 18 through Sept 16 Canterbury Park’s request for a 65-day 2021 thoroughbred and quarter horse racing season, May 18 through Sept. 16, was unanimously approved Thursday by the Minnesota Racing Commission. The Shakopee, Minn. track will conduct a Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday schedule with racing also […]
Canterbury Park Requests 65-Day Racing Season For 2021
Canterbury Park racing officials have submitted a request to the Minnesota Racing Commission for 65 racing dates in 2021 beginning May 18 and running through Sept. 16. With the request came the caveat that future impacts associated with the COVID-19 pandemic may necessitate an amendment to the request. Horsemen purses are projected to return to […]
Horses Ready To Race; Entries for June 10 Friday
Training continues at Canterbury Park each day on both the main and training surfaces beginning at 6 a.m. With more than 1,000 horses, mostly thoroughbreds, on the grounds there is continual activity until the 10:30 a.m. close. Anyone with the ability to gallop or proclivity to be a groom or hot walker could begin employment […]
Canterbury Park Announces Purse Structure and Stakes Schedule For Revised 52-Day Race Meet
Daily purses to average $200,000; 27th Minnesota Festival of Champions Sept. 7 After last week submitting for approval to the Minnesota Racing Commission a revised 52-day race meet schedule beginning June 10, Canterbury Park officials today announced an estimated $10 million purse structure and stakes schedule. Daily purse distribution will average nearly $200,000 per race […]
