BC DERBY PURSE INCREASES TO $250,000 Vancouver, B.C. (Feb. 6/15) – Over 100 horses were on the grounds for the opening of training Thursday at Hastings Racecourse. With the 2015 thoroughbred season set to open Saturday, April 25, long-time trainer John Morrison was the first to have a horse on the track shortly after 7:30…
DetailsTwo-Year Extension with City of Vancouver Another Positive Vancouver, B.C. (Oct. 28/14) – With the average on-track wagering figures in 2014 showing a marginal increase over 2013 and a two-year operating extension in place with the City of Vancouver, there was good reason for optimism as the thoroughbred season wound down at Hastings Racecourse. “We…
DetailsVancouver, B.C. (Dec. 12/14) – Trips to the podium have become a way of life for British Columbia Horse Racing Hall of Fame owner Peter Redekop. Part of the Hastings Racecourse scene since the mid 1960’s, the silver-haired gentleman with a perpetual smile walked off with four awards at the annual Thoroughbred Awards Dinner on…
DetailsVancouver, B.C. (Oct. 13/14) – Rico Walcott, leading jockey at Northlands Park in Edmonton this year with an awesome 129 wins, shared his riding talents with thoroughbred fans at Hastings Racecourse on a rainy Thanksgiving Monday afternoon. Walcott scored a TKO with three major stakes races in succession – a natural hat-trick – including the…
DetailsVancouver, B.C. (Oct. 3/14) – With just eight live racing days remaining on the 2014 calendar at Hastings Racecourse, 31-year-old jockey Amadeo Perez has his sights set on the leading riding title for the second time within the last three years.
DetailsVancouver, B.C. (Sept. 21/14) – It was back in the days of the Canucks’ electrifying march to the 1982 Stanley Cup final against the New York Islanders when goaltender Richard Brodeur was heralded as ‘King Richard’ throughout Vancouver. After back-to-back victories in the Jack and Sadie Diamond $100,000 Futurities Sunday afternoon, Richard Hamel was being…
DetailsVancouver, B.C. (Sept. 1/14) – Jockey Richard Hamel won the first three CTHS (BC) $50,000 stakes races at Hastings Racecourse Monday afternoon and came within a whisker of making it a clean sweep of all four. Not by a nose, as it will be registered on the official form chart, but by a whisker ……
DetailsVancouver, B.C. (Aug. 15/14) – Party Pooper co-operated like the perfect guest but Seedle Surprise did pull off the unexpected in the $50,000 stake features at Hastings Racecourse Friday night. A surprisingly large gathering on the eve of the 2014 Fair at the PNE converged on Hastings and enjoyed one of the most pleasant summer…
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