Canterbury extreme race day full#
Enjoy favorites like Birria Tacos with Grilled Vegetables, and Tres Leches for dessert!Įvent includes live racing admission, samplings of Don Julio Cocktails, two drink tickets for our selection of Tequila based cocktails for the full bar, as well as access to the appetizer pairings throughout the evening! Entertainment will be provided in-between live racing. It has been proposed once before and this additional suggestion is not based on settled science but on mounting evidence: Canterbury should consider running a 67-day meet featuring ostrich, zebra and camel racing each year, mixing in a thoroughbred/quarter horse day here and there.Įvidence suggests that would reverse what is now occurring: Solid attendance for horse racing and stupendous attendance whenever the wild beasts run.Upgrade your racing experience with our special "Taste of Canterbury" event series, transporting you to the taste of Tacos and Tequila sponsored by Don Julio! This entertainment experience will show what Canterbury's kitchen can bring to the table with specialty food, cocktails, and pairings during an evening packed with themed fun and live racing action. Just imagine, sizeable crowds to watch the critters of the desert sands and average attendance of 16,000 to say 21,000 for horse racing. Canterbury Park would become the envy of the racing world. The brain trusts at Santa Anita, Churchill Downs and Belmont would be forced to bow down to an enterprise in existence only since 1985. “Yeah,” someone would say, “but what was the per capita?” “They ran thoroughbreds and quarter horses there yesterday and had a crowd of 29,000.” “Hey, did you see what they drew at Canterbury on Friday,” someone would say in a California or New York racing boardroom.
“They sold 33,000 hot dogs, the same number of pizza slices and several hundred gallons of Pepsi products, not to mention 300 barrels of beer.” “Never mind the per cap,” someone would reply. Per capita spending on wagering alone, say 50 bucks, would rise to $450 when concessions are added. Granted, such a shift to extreme day racing on a full-time basis could not be made without possible pitfalls, but right now, based on what happened at Canterbury Park on Saturday (a crowd of 13,315) and in years past, this latest proposal seems sound. The perfect name for the 2017 rendition of Extreme Day, as it is known, should actually be Nik Goodwin day, based on how he kicked off Saturday’s proceedings. Goodwin, you might recall, celebrated the 1,000th thoroughbred winner of his career recently. Saturday, he became the all time leader in quarter horse winners at Canterbury, riding Lota James in the Dash in a Flash Stakes, an Extreme Day 110 yard sprint. That gave him 108 overall, one more than Ry Eikleberry. Then, in the Duck Race, he made trainer Randy Pfeifer a first-time winner this meet aboard Choral Song. “Been a good day,” Goodwin said matter of factly.īefore we recount the events of the day, there are additional suggestions to be made. For instance, in the race called the Battle of the Surfaces, pitting horses on the turf against others on the grass. It is an amazing spectacle, watching two races being run as one. Next year, why not add the training track beyond the main track and turf course to create even more excitement. Maybe even run quarter horses on the training track, for an added dimension. Just imagine, watching three races at the same time but it is actually one race. What a reason to skip the cabin, fishing, boating on the St. It would be better than the State Fair, Valley Fair and the Scott County Fair all in one. A three for one deal, so to speak.Īs good as Extreme Day already is, it can certainly benefit from implementing these suggestions. It has been several years since a turf horse has won the battle of the surfaces, but that changed on Saturday. Nutty Futty, ridden by Leslie Mawing, was the winner, breaking from the No. The next three finishers also ran on the grass.
There were 11 starters on the turf, nine on the dirt.įormer pressbox assistant Michelle Benson, the winning rider in last year’s Camelbury Dash, now works in advertising for the Thoroughbred Daily News in New Jersey.
She shipped in Saturday, hoping to defend her crown aboard last year’s winner, Rock N Spit. Her mount did not break well and ran even worse and she was of the mind afterward that she had been aboard a ringer, simply tagged with the same name. “I don’t think it was the same camel,” Michelle said.
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