The 2016 thoroughbred racing season will begin in mid-April and conclude in mid-October it was announced today by Hastings Racecourse General Manager Darren MacDonald. “It was great to come to a mutually beneficial schedule with the horsemen’s groups,” MacDonald said. “I couldn’t be happier. Now we just wait for the approval of the Gaming Policy […]
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As of Sunday we have completed 46 days of live racing at Hastings Racecourse. In total we have run a total of 347 races which includes 39 stakes races. The average field size although it slipped a little in July and August is holding pretty steady at 6.94 horses per race. The overall handle at […]
The second qualifying leg of the Champions Starter Series was split into a pair of races and the first was won by Wine Stock ($4.30) who covered a sloppy 6 ½ furlongs in the day’s best time of 1:17.04. That was good three-and-a-quarter-length win over Ganbei who closed a ton of ground in the last […]
Hastings Racecourse was hot on Sunday. Pedro Alvarado won three races. Keishan Balgobin rode a double. The 22-year-old sire Stephanotis showed everyone he was still hot, siring two winners. SenorRojo scorched an Allowance type field on his way to a daylight win. And the racing fans that came out were blazing under the sun. Senor […]
There were some nice horses running at Hastings Racecourse on Sunday. There were three quality allowance type races (including two Maiden Special Weights) with a $25,000 maiden claimer thrown in for good measure. Both upper level maidens for three-and-ups went as straight three-year-old races as has happened so many times this season. Leading riders Richard […]
Hastings Racecourse has put together without question the best racing card of the 2015 season for tomorrow’s Canada Day live program. The day features 4 stakes races all with good size fields, three heats in the Championship series and first six furlong race for two year old allowance horses. Lots of features for the whole […]
The day after the first Triple Crown in all those years could have been something of an anti-climax, but Sunday at the Track of the Water and Mountains produced some outstanding performances, both equine and human. Jockey Keishan Balgobin won three and Richard Hamel won both stakes on the card. In fact, Hamel won three […]
Sunday saw better horses and larger fields than the day before and the result was a larger crowd and a handle that pushed past $830,000, nearly $370,000 more than Saturday. Jockeys and trainers had big clumps of success with Pedro Alvarado and Richard Hamel each riding three winners while Mike Anderson trained two, as did […]
Ten race days and five weekends into the 2015 season at Hastings Racecourse has shown a clear resurgence locally in the popularity of the legendary Sport of Kings. Case in point: wagering was up nearly 30 per cent this past weekend compared to the same time last year. Overall, the daily handle for live racing […]
Jockey Nichelle Milner was paralyzed for seven months when she suffered a broken back in 1989 and a broken neck in 1992 following accidents during her riding career in the U.S. But she never allowed it to break her spirit. Milner is the newest member of the Hastings Racecourse management team and says of her […]
After six days of racing at Hastings Racecourse the mutual handle is up 13% over 2014. We keep track on a day to day basis comparing day one against day one in 2014 and so on. A combination of good weather so far and the field size being up by nearly a half a horse […]
Cederberg ($12.80) won the co-featured Jim Coleman Province Stakes for three year-olds on Sunday at Hastings Racecourse with an unrelenting effort over the 6 ½ furlong sprint distance that saw him eventually wear down a very game Bluegrass Angus and win in 1:16.32, that being plenty fast for a three year-old at Hastings in early […]
Two new stakes races have been added to BC Cup Day on Monday, August 3 while two established BC Cup stakes are moving to a huge Friday Night Live program August 21 on the eve of the 2015 PNE Fair. Darren MacDonald, Hastings General Manager and Director, BC Racing, announced the addition of a new […]
Hastings General Manager, Darren MacDonald sends along late yesterday that he walked the entire barn on Thursday afternoon and states the horse count now appears to be around 530 horses. Although we don’t have an official count for the same time last year it would appear we are up over the total count. The number […]
Sunday morning was another beautiful, fairly warm and comfortable morning. The weather and the excitement of opening day not too far away brought out several owners to watch their pride and joys train. The track is in perfect shape for this time of year with the help of the weather this year as I can […]
