The future remains murky, the Virginia Racing Commission learned, with the present characterized by shuttered facilities, withheld payments, and failed negotiations.
With legislation to govern Virginia racing now passed, new questions abound: Where and when will racing take place? And who will run it?
The fog may be lifting and the ice thawing in a Virginia racing dispute that canceled the 2014 Colonial Downs meet.
The annual VTA Stallion Season Auction, which takes place next week, has attracted some top national stallions.
Made Bail will try to get sprung into stakes company in the Marylander at Laurel for owner-trainer Susan Cooney – helping make up for Embarr’s retirement.
Tonalist’s breeders and V. E. Day’s owner are more than Breeders’ Cup Classic rivals; they’re Northern Virginia neighbors and, now, friends.
Saturday’s International Gold Cup at Great Meadow will include both steeplechase and flat racing and could be a blueprint for racing’s Virginia future.
The Virginia Racing Commission convened on a gray October day in Richmond, which was only foreshadowing what was to come next.
Horses raised in Virginia are thriving everywhere but at home. Tomorrow’s Racing Commission meeting might, or might not, resolve the long impasse over days.
Colonial Downs says it’s fixing Virginia racing by creating, then negotiating with a new “horsemen’s group.” Nick Hahn says that sounds more like gelding.