Opening Day of the 2019 thoroughbred season at Hastings Racecourse on Saturday, May 4 will be taking on its own festive Kentucky Derby flavour.
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Stakes purses totaling $2.27 million kick into gear on opening day, Sunday, April 21, 2019, at Hastings Racecourse, including the $250,000 BC Derby.
Meet Lenny and Learie Seecharen, 22-year-old jockeys from Trinidad who will be riding during opening weekend of the season at Hastings Racecourse.
The weatherman cut us some slack. There was sunshine, the track dried out to a large extent and people showed up to close it down for another year. Four stakes races buttressed the card with a Marathon Series finale at a mile-and-a-half thrown in to provide some variety. Hopefully a good time was had by […]
Horses that started the year as low level claimers had a successful weekend at Hastings winning two Grade 3 Stakes races.
Hastings Racecourse will host an ownership information session on Sunday September 10th. Anyone interested in buying a racehorse should attend to learn about the benefits of ownership, purchasing options and how to find a trainer, plus highlights of this year’s CTHS-BC Yearling & Mixed Sale and more. Light refreshments will be served. The session will […]
While the 72nd running of the BC Derby will definitely be the feature attraction at Hastings Racecourse Saturday afternoon,
Three Thoroughbred Associations, the CTHS, BCTOBA, and the HBPA of BC, in order to maintain the integrity of the current overnight purse structure
It seems appropriate that a jewel like Daz Lin Dawn ($2.20) would win the Emerald Downs Handicap at Hastings Racecourse, something she did by seven lengths when jockey Richard Hamel turned her loose after being last of four and wide around the first turn and for a good part of the jaunt down the backstretch. […]
Trainer Dino Condilenios was dressed to the nines on Mother’s Day in a dark blue suit and crisp blue-on-white button-down shirt. After winning three races Sunday at Hastings Racecourse including the $50,000 George Royal with Modern for a third consecutive year, he says he’s thinking about making it his normal attire for the balance of […]
Dating back centuries the phrase “familiarity breeds contempt” basically referred to a person disliking another after spending too much time together. It most certainly does not apply to Peter Redekop and Glen Todd, a couple of gladiators who have known and respected each other for years as successful horse owners at Hastings Racecourse. In fact, […]
The 2017 thoroughbred racing season will see an increase of three races to its stakes schedule announced today by Darren MacDonald of Hastings Racecourse
Closing day arrived on Sunday and it was a lot like the day before, wet. Once again the Hastings track crew produced a functional racing surface despite the meteorological challenges and all contestants appeared to return in good order. Most of the day’s winners were horses that closed to some extent or the other. Track […]
We were all grateful for a Thanksgiving Day as gorgeous as the one we were gifted with. It was a beautiful day at one of the world’s most spectacularly set racetracks, that being Historic Old Hastings Racecourse, aka, the Track of the Water and Mountains. There was a free Thanksgiving Lunch in the backstretch kitchen […]
On one hour’s sleep, horse owner Glen Todd was back at his Hastings Racecourse stable Sunday morning wondering if life could get any better. It was 12 hours earlier when Todd had won his first BC Derby with Sorryaboutnothing, describing the moment as “the last thing on my bucket list”. The victory in Saturday’s 71st […]
