10 RACES ON SUNDAY – FREE PROGRAM

Vancouver, B.C (April 22/16) In an effort to provide the best product during the early stages of the racing season, Hastings Racecourse’s General Manager, Darren MacDonald, announced there will be 10 quality races on Sunday afternoon while cancelling Saturday’s original scheduled card. “Due to an exceptionally wet spring several horses are a few weeks behind…

TWO $50,000 STAKES ON 8-RACE SUNDAY CARD LAUNCH ENCOURAGING SEASON AT HASTINGS

  Vancouver, B.C. (April 15/16) – With an unmistakable feeling of enthusiasm in the air, the 2016 thoroughbred season gets rolling at Hastings Racecourse Sunday afternoon with an eight-race card featuring two $50,000 stakes:  the Brighouse Belles and Swift Thoroughbreds Inaugural. “We’re ready for a big year,” says Hastings General Manager Darren MacDonald. “There’ve been…

DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS

Something Vancouver Canucks head coach Willie Desjardins said the other day struck a chord about life behind the scenes at Hastings Racecourse.  Desjardins in his post-season address told a tribe of media merchants that they really don’t know and will never know what goes on in the Canucks dressing room.  He said, in effect: “We…

2016 COMMUNITY DAYS AT HASTINGS RACECOURSE

2016 COMMUNITY DAYS AT HASTINGS RACECOURSE SUPPORT 10 NON-PROFIT BENEFITS PROGRAMS     Vancouver, B.C. (March 22, 2016) – In its continuing pledge to lend a helping hand in support of non-profit organizations in Hastings-Sunrise and across Vancouver, Hastings Racecourse proudly acknowledges the 10 “Community Days at the Track” recipients for 2016.   A selection…