With the total wagering handle skyrocketing to $810,252 and crowds gathered, opening day at Hastings Racecourse was a successful one.

Opening Day of the 2019 thoroughbred season at Hastings Racecourse on Saturday, May 4 will be taking on its own festive Kentucky Derby flavour.

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.

The BC chapter of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society is holding a yearling and mixed sale on September 11th, with intriguing incentives.

BC Cup Day at Hastings Racecourse proved to be Antonio Reyes Day, as he won five of the nine races carded, including three Stakes races.

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 on BC Day. They were festive and wagered copiously. Mario Gutierrez put in a guest appearance and won a stake.

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. […]