Lone Star Park suspended racing following Race 1 on Sunday, July 5, and canceled the remaining eight races on the card. Fiesta's Speedfest on April 19th will be our next event. Each year Canterbury Park in Shakopee, MN adds “extreme” races to its usual lineup of horse racing, proclaiming “It’s a real zoo! Camel, Ostrich, and Zebra races!” Join the Animal Rights Coalition to protest this ridiculous and exploitative event on Saturday July 14, from noon to 2:00 p.m.You can choose to show Betfair Starting Price (SP) options. Let’s use our voices to peacefully show Canterbury and its patrons that we don’t believe animals should be used as entertainment, exotic or otherwise.
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Signs will be provided, but feel free to bring your own. CANTERBURY PARK EXTREME RACE DAY 2018 FREE We will protest at the intersection of Canterbury Road and 12th Ave, across the street from McDonalds. This is a high traffic area as it is where folks will come off 169 to head into the park and there are many businesses nearby. Please consider posting a comment on the Canterbury Park Facebook page and contact Randy Sampson, President of Canterbury Park, at and ask him to cancel the event.
Please be polite as rude or offensive comments will not help the animals.Every so often there comes along a racehorse that happens to capture the public imagination. The reasons for the fascination may vary, although in all such instances the ability to gallop is paramount.
But many horses win more than their share of prestigious races yet never attain that charismatic aura with the crowds. There need to be other qualities at work as well. It might be the horse’s flashy looks or style of racing that grabs the public, or sometimes it might be the flashy looks and style of racing of the horse’s rich and famous owners. In fact, all of these ingredients were at play in the spring of 1963 when there emerged racing’s quintessential glamour horse of the ‘sixties in the shape of a sleek and dapper black colt from Todman’s first crop. Truth be told, the aura of romance began on a crisp autumn day in April earlier that same year, when the colt went under the auctioneer’s hammer at the William Inglis Easter Sales. The first of Todman’s progeny were always going to excite interest, but it was late on the final day of those sales that a real frisson exhilarated the Newmarket crowd when the black colt from the former champion race mare, Chicquita, was paraded.
The yearling, reared at Baramul Stud, was being sold on account of Sir Gordon McArthur of historic Meningoort, at Camperdown, one of the earliest established homesteads in Victoria. The three principals that were most interested in acquiring the yearling were Perce Galea, Darby Munro and Jack Denham. Munro was the first of the trio to drop out of the bidding, and although Denham went to 6100 guineas, it was Galea’s trump bid of 6,200 guineas that won the prize. It was a record price for the final day of the Easter Sales and helped Todman set a record for a sire in his first year. All told, his thirteen yearlings offered, sold for 33,100 guineas – or an average of 2546-guineas. But undoubtedly the pick of the crop was this Chicquita youngster, and the interest wasn’t hard to understand. Apart from the yearling’s impressive conformation, his pedigree belonged in Debrett’s. I’ve already expounded upon the abilities of Todman in the pages of this chronicle Chicquita’s weren’t much inferior. An exceptional filly, at the Melbourne spring meetings of 1949 Chicquita had swept the board of fillies’ classics, winning no less than the Manifold Stakes, One Thousand Guineas, Wakeful Stakes and the Oaks Stakes! Moreover, the following year she had matured into a quality handicap and weight-for-age performer, winning races and running second in both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. Although all-up, she won sixteen races during her career, her record would have been even more distinguished had that grand champion Comic Court not been around to rain on her parade – she finished second to him in no less than six races. Retired to stud as a five-year-old, Chicquita had already proven a top matron by getting a string of winners in King Nero, Neron, Don Jota, Comicquita, Starquita and Sirikit. But it was this fellow sired by Todman who would prove to be her best.
Galea would race the colt in partnership with his sons, Clive and Bruce, and initially applied to register him as Black Prince but when that name wasn’t available, he opted for his next choice. CANTERBURY PARK EXTREME RACE DAY 2018 FREE.
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