Johnnie Jack News Today

"I'm gonna pick up where I was last week," Jack Torrey told the comfortably packed crowd Monday night at the Turf Club. "Complaining about billionaires." A steady sign of wealth within the Twin Cities music scene, Torrey's neo-twang group the Cactus Blossoms picked up where they left off last week, last year and last decade at the St. Paul watering hole that perfectly matches their ...

Buck Trent, a giant of banjo playing in the annals of country and collaborator of Dolly Parton, Marty Stuart and many more, has died at 85.

The audience was filled with fire as California native Jesse Daniel and his band closed out Friday night at the Creekside Stage.

Gentry Seelster secured his second win in five starts this year in the $1,600 Winners Over feature race at Northside Downs on Saturday afternoon (June 11).

Over the last nine months, pacing mare Kiss Me Im Irish has shown the kind of the form that could make her a dominant force in Cape Breton this season.

Ardon Mofford started the 2022 season of harness racing at Northside Downs with a training triple, and he returned for the second week of on-track action showing that success was no fluke.

In the days after the plane crash that killed Patsy Cline and three others, the country music world was rocked by another tragedy.

After a sixth-place finish in the opening leg of the Governor's Cup Series, the forecast appeared less than favourable for Sunshine Lou to advance to this year's final. But a win last week gave a ray of hope to his connections.

There appears to a be a new horse atop the open ranks at Northside Downs, and that horse is four-year-old Johnnie Jack. After a narrow loss in the Winners Over class in June 19 to start the season, the altered son of Westwardho Hanover - Water Sprite has been a consistent visitor to the winners circle in 2021. For the third straight week, in fact, Johnnie Jack and driver Ryan Campbell have been posing for photographer Tanya Romeo after winning the weekly Winners Over feature. Send postward as t...