July 4th Wiener Dog Race Finalists Set

Canterbury Park’s annual wiener dog races are turning into some pretty serious business. This year, five trials had to be conducted to determine who would be able to race in the Wiener Dog finals on July 4. Dogs from all over the metro area competed in trials on Saturday and Sunday with the top two advancing from each heat.

Here are the full list of qualifiers:

Aspen, owned by Jake and Justine Launert
Beans, owned by Tyler and Alyssa Borgemoen
Charlie Brown, owned by Dustin and Crystal Brown
Charlie, owned by Tamra Gillen
Dagwood, owned by Emily Sowieja and Alex Behrendt
Doug, owned by Matt Nourie
Miss Daisy Mae, owned by Lynn and Todd Novitsky
Murphy, owned by Kellie Murphy and Tyler Zarbok
Oscar, owned by Chrissy Bitterman
Roxy Glamour Princess, owned by Kim and Layne Poppovich

To see pictures of the qualifiers as well as to read about the training regimens of some of the top dogs, check out Canterbury's Blog.