
For more information, visit The post Canterbury Park Approved For 65-Day Race Meet In 2022 appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report. The Canterbury Park stable area, which can accommodate more than 1,400 racehorses, will open Wednesday, April 27.Ĭanterbury Park’s 24/7 card casino and simulcast racebook remain open daily.
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The 2022 thoroughbred and quarter horse stakes schedules will be announced in early January with stall applications, full details of Canterbury Park’s shipping incentive programs and the first condition book available shortly thereafter. Purses are projected to reach $15 million, exceeding $230,000 per day. From 2015 through 2019, average daily attendance exceeded 6,500 with heavily promoted days often surpassing 18,000. Tuesday racing will be replaced with Saturday evening racing programs in the coming season in an effort to build on the on-track success, and maintain the more recent off-track wagering levels, experienced on Sundays in 2021 when crowds returned to pre-pandemic numbers while off-track handle averaged $894,736, nearly triple the 2019 figure. The post Canterbury Park’s 2019 Racing Schedule Approved By Minnesota Racing Commission appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.In 2021, all-sources wagering reached a record $90.9 million with racing conducted Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons, surpassing the $68.4 million record set in 2020 when 53 days of racing were conducted. The promotional calendar, which includes several popular events such as Corgis & Cupcakes and Extreme Race Day, will be revealed in March. A racing secretary is expected to be announced before the New Year. Racing officials recently hired industry veteran Johnnie Jamison as track superintendent. The 2019 stakes schedule will be released in January. The agreement extends through 2022 with more than $83 million going toward purse supplements and joint marketing of the two properties and the region known as RiverSouth-Land of Big Fun. A 2012 cooperative marketing and purse enhancement agreement reached with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, owners and operators of nearby Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, will supplement purses by $7.28 million. Total purses are anticipated to exceed $14.25 million in 2019, at approximately $215,000 per day, similar to 2018. “And, of course, none of this is possible without the support of the great racing fans at Canterbury Park.”

“Credit can be given to the dedication of many long-time employees as well as the horse owners, breeders, and trainers that have supported racing in Minnesota,” Sampson said.

The company recently broke ground on Canterbury Commons, a multi-use redevelopment expected to attract more than $400 million in private investment while creating new and in-demand housing options and high-wage employment opportunities, as well as additional dining and entertainment venues. Twenty-five years later we have a card casino, a flourishing events and catering business, and racing continues to thrive.” In 1995 live racing returned and we embellished the events schedule. We started in 1994 with simulcast racing, a few special events, and with many wondering how we could make horse racing work in Minnesota when others before us had failed. “I am very excited about 2019 as we celebrate our 25th racing season and the successes we have had as a company,” Randy Sampson said.


The three-day music festival will be held in the track infield. A one-week break in the racing season will allow Canterbury to host Twin Cities Summer Jam, July 18 – 20. There will be three Saturday evening programs, June 22, Aug. On July 3 and 4 racing will begin at 4 p.m. contests for fans and even extreme animal races. On Thursdays and Fridays in 2019, racing will begin at 6:00 p.m., 30 minutes earlier than previous race meets, and weekend and holiday racing will begin at 12:45 p.m. Canterbury Park: Corgi races - See 201 traveler reviews, 31 candid photos, and great deals for Shakopee, MN, at Tripadvisor.
