---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-000304"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CPHC"
cik: "0001672909"
company_name: "Canterbury Park Holding Corp"
filed_at: "2023-01-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T20:22:04.398973+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Canterbury Park's $84M purse agreement with SMSC expires; 2023 season shortened

## Summary
- Ten-year, $84M purse enhancement agreement with Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community expired Dec. 31, 2022.
- 2023 racing season reduced to May 27–Sep 16 with fewer race days to sustain purse levels.
- Company investing over $15M in stable area improvements and building 19,000-seat amphitheater (opening 2024).
- CEO hopes Minnesota Legislature includes racetracks in sports betting/gaming modernization discussions.
- No new agreement reached after months of good-faith negotiations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-000304
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CPHC
- cik: 0001672909
- company_name: Canterbury Park Holding Corp
- filed_at: 2023-01-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1672909/000143774923000304/0001437749-23-000304-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1672909/000143774923000304/cphc20230104_8k.htm

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