This year’s 69-day meet begins May 17 and runs through September 14.įeatured race days include the third annual Fillies Race For Hope, a breast cancer awareness fundraiser on August 17, and the 20th running of Minnesota Festival of Champions on September 1.Ī full menu of simulcast racing is offered daily in the Canterbury Race Book. Canterbury Park will offer six six-figure stakes races, including the $200,000 Mystic Lake Derby, the largest single purse since 1991.

Purses for the 2013 season have doubled compared to 2011 due to the agreement. In June of 2012, Canterbury Park and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community entered into a cooperative purse enhancement and marketing agreement that will inject $75 million into the horsemen’s purse fund over a 10-year span.

Located just 20 minutes from downtown Minneapolis, Canterbury Park has grown from a horse racing and simulcasting facility in the mid-1990s to a 24-hour-a-day, year-round entertainment destination.