The sun shone on Century Downs as the Calgary track, delaying opening day due to weather and track conditions, finally kicked off racing for the 2019 season on Sunday, March 17....read on
Century Cancels Opening Card
March 2, 2019:
Officials with the Alberta Standardbred Horse Association announced on Saturday (March 2) that the opening card of harness racing for the 2019 season at Century Downs has been postponed....read on
Century Downs Stall Apps Coming Due
February 19, 2019:
Officials with Century Downs have issued a reminder to horsepeople that the due date for stall applications is quickly approaching....read on
Hennessy, Haining End Year In Style
December 31, 2018:
Driver Mike Hennessy and trainer Harold Haining ended 2018 at Century Downs winning several events on the 10-race card with Hennessy winning five and Haining three....read on
Faves Take Alberta Stakes; Five For Hennessy
December 26, 2018:
Bim Bam Boom and Thunder Alley, each sent the odds-on choice, emerged victorious on the Wednesday, Dec. 26 card at Century Downs with Bim Bam Boom taking the $18,000 Alberta Snowflake Final and Thunder Alley the $18,000 Alberta Snowshoe....read on
Century’s Preliminary Action Continues
December 16, 2018:
Preliminary series action for Alberta-sired juveniles continued Sunday (Dec. 16) at Century Downs, as Thunder Alley and Bim Bam Boom each hit the wire first in their respective assignments over the Calgary-area oval....read on
Thunder Alley Rebuffs Favourite
December 9, 2018:
After having been dispatched at odds of 10-1 from Post 6, Thunder Alley ($22.70) raced like a favourite during Century Downs’ lone third-leg division of the Alberta Snowshoe for freshman male pacers....read on
Saturday Century Card Cancelled
December 5, 2018:
Trot Insider has been informed that Horse Racing Alberta has given its approval for Century Downs’ Saturday, December 8 race date to be cancelled....read on
Snowflakes Greet Snowflake Competitors
December 2, 2018:
A pair of $6,000 second-leg divisions of the Alberta Snowflake for provincial-sired juvenile pacers was the order of the day on Sunday (Dec. 2) at Century Downs. Much to the chagrin of the horsepeople in participation, Mother Nature took the stakes moniker literally....read on
Snow Series Kickoff At Century
November 25, 2018:
Alberta-sired freshmen contested in the opening round conditioned stakes action at Century Downs on Sunday, Nov. 25 with fillies competing in the opening prelim of the Alberta Snowflake and the boys in the first round of the Alberta Snowshoe....read on
Icy Blue Scooter Heating Up
November 18, 2018:
After winning by 3-3/4 lengths in his return to Calgary last week, Icy Blue Scooter ($4.20) looked every bit the part of the even-money favourite in an encore score in Sunday's (Nov. 18) $9,000 Open Handicap Pace at Century Downs....read on
Alberta Champions To Spar Saturday
November 14, 2018:
Alberta's finest will square off at Century Downs on Saturday (Nov. 17) in the $300,000 Alberta Sire Stakes Challenge of Champions Super Finals. The four finals are carded as the seventh through 10th races on a program slated to begin at 12:45 p.m. (MST)....read on
Icy Blue Scooter & Sobey Star At Century
November 12, 2018:
Icy Blue Scooter capped off a training/driving triple on the Monday afternoon harness card for Nathan Sobey, winning Century Downs' $9,000 Open Handicap Pace....read on
Thats It Gets It In Century Open
November 11, 2018:
Post-time favourite Thats It circled three wide circling into the final turn and got a head in front in the $9,000 Fillies and Mares Open at Century Downs on Sunday, Nov. 11....read on
Exit Smiling Thrilling Connections
November 6, 2018:
Exit Smiling missed out on two of Alberta’s biggest harness races of the summer, the Ralph Klein Memorial and the Western Canada Pacing Derby, but he may still be the top racehorse in the province. He’s set to try to prove it in the 2018 Alberta Sires Stakes Super Finals which will take place on Saturday, November 17 at Century Downs....read on
