While he’s best known for spoiling Real Quiet’s Triple Crown bid, it was at Colonial Downs that the career of Victory Gallop began to take flight.
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Catholic Boy made his first start of 2019 a winning one, holding off a late challenge to win the G2 Dixie Stakes at Pimlico.
D. Wayne Lukas has seen almost everything there is to see in 40 Preaknesses.
Maryland-based trainer Graham Motion (Just Howard) and Virginia-raised Jonathan Thomas (Catholic Boy) bookend the Dixie in multiple ways.
Point of Honor rallied to win the G2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Friday at Pimlico for her third win in four starts.
In the season of the comeback, Colonial Downs took another step towards its own yesterday with the burning of its turf course to promote new growth.
The shape of the 2019 Colonial Downs meet is starting to come into focus, said general manager John Marshall.
Regulations governing historic racing machines in Virginia must have greater flexibility and discretion if this industry is to thrive, the Virginia Equine Alliance (VEA) argued in a letter to the Commission.
Regulations proposed by the Virginia Racing Commission would allow 3000 historical racing terminals statewide while calling for one day of live racing per 100 terminals – at least 30 for max buildout.