SMITH, TORRES GOING HEAD TO HEAD
Stormy Smith reflected on the question, searching his memory as if he were rewinding an old tape recorder, trying to locate some recorded facts. The 36-year-old rider is leading the quarter horse jockey standings, not entirely a new event to him. After all he has been the leading rider at Prairie Meadows nine of the […]
Broadway Empire in Mystic Lake Mile
The horses had departed the paddock for the racetrack on a recent afternoon when another one seemed to appear out of nowhere, circling the oval at the hand of an assistant trainer, on his toes one minute, then back at a gentle walk whenever his handler shook the lead rope. The horse in question was […]
Broadway Empire back in Shakopee
The rider was back on the job locally Sunday but wiped out on Monday. The horse was back in the barn on Monday and jogged for the first time on Thursday. The trainer? He’ll be back on the job locally late Friday night. All concerned agree that the experience was well worth the effort.. Broadway […]
AND BABY MAKES THREE
The question was meant as much as a conversation starter as an actual query, but in this particular case there was really only one way to answer. So, what’s happened in your life since the last Canterbury Park meet, Ry Eikleberry? “Oh, lots of things, really,” he responded. “The No. 1 thing is that we […]
Tell All You Know wins Honor the Hero
His owner thought he was finished at mid-stretch, his rider thought he might have been ready for bed, too, but Tell All You Know spilled it all in the final strides to win the 20th running of the $75,000 Honor the Hero Stakes on Memorial Day in a stakes record :55.85. The race was shaken […]
Welcome to Minnesota Jorge Carreno
Jorge Carreno had a message for every trainer he met. “I’m going to win a race for you,” he’d say without a hint of cockiness. He simply wanted the business and more often than not made good on the promise. That attitude is part of the reason he won his second riding title last winter […]
Scott Stevens to ride Broadway Empire in Met Mile at Belmont
It’s not the Belmont Stakes but it’s part of the same card and it does have a nice ring to it. How does $1. 25 million sound? Canterbury Park Hall of Fame rider Scott Stevens will ride Broadway Empire, trained by Canterbury conditioner Robertino Diodoro, in the Grade I Metropolitan […]
Sweet Music at Canterbury
by Jim Wells Down one day, up the next. In the pits one moment, on top of the world an instant later. All is lost in the morning, the cosmos at your feet that afternoon. Ah, yes, the wonderful, wacky, sometimes very weird world of horse racing. Just ask Marlene Colvin. Friday, her […]
Opening Night Upset
by Jim Wells You’ve heard it time and time again. There are no sure things in horse racing. That’s why they run the races. How true. How true, and Minnesota racing fans saw the axiom played out before their very eyes on the opening night of racing Friday, in the very stakes race of […]
Stevens Back For Another Season
By Jim Wells As winters go, it couldn’t have been better if your tack was at Turf Paradise in Phoenix. While nearly every other place in the country was stricken with cold, draught, torrential rain or mountains of snow, Phoenix experienced a balmy, blissful and beautiful stretch of weather during those same months. […]
