There was something for everyone during Extreme Day Saturday: Short races for anyone in similar financial straits, a race run simultaneously on the turf and the dirt for those who watch a couple of NFL games on side-by-side television sets, camel races for those trying to surmount a hump of one kind of another and, Thrills and Chills of Extreme DayĬanterbury Park will send out exotic animals and accompanying jockeys for Saturday’s annual Extreme Day, an occasion when caution and civility are thrown to the wind and some people are caught downwind from the camels, zebras and ostriches. Will Donald Hump be able to make racing great again or will he hit a wall? While Hilary Camelton is the AN EXTREME YET INVIGORATING DAY In the most anticipated “race” of the season, Donald Hump and Hilary Camelton go head to head in a battle of speed and spit Saturday, July 16.Even the winning jockey was Top 5 Reasons to Come to Extreme Race Day at Canterbury Park So this is a EXTREMELY NICE WEATHER, LARGE CROWD FOR EXTREME RACE DAYīY JIM WELLS How about the largest field for a race this year other than the Kentucky Derby, a race in which the track announcer can’t call a winner because, as Paul Allen put it Saturday, “I had no idea who won.” Not because there was a photo finish involved. The first Extreme Race Day was held in 2007, and I was there at age nine. It’s a wild and wacky day for all featuring camel, ostrich, and zebra races. Evidence suggests that would reverse what is now Extreme Memoriesīy Noah Joseph Saturday is Extreme Race Day, a highlight of the year at Canterbury Park, now in its 11th edition. The afternoon includes events you might otherwise expect to see EXTREME DAY A WILD, WOOLY, FEATHERY AFFAIRīY JIM WELLS It has been proposed once before and this additional suggestion is not based on settled science but on mounting evidence: Canterbury should consider running a 67-day meet featuring ostrich, zebra and camel racing each year, mixing in a thoroughbred/quarter horse day here and there. BY JIM WELLS There is the short, quick race at a distance you expect to see in the summer Olympics, another that tests your eye/brain coordination by watching a race being conducted on different racing surfaces simultaneously, and yet another at a mere two furlongs.
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