Press Release • contributor to The Racing Biz

Colonial Downs, HBPA pledge support to TAA

Colonial Downs and the Virginia HBPA horsemen’s group have agreed to contribute $15 per start to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance.

Trainer Jenn Patterson — Orb’s former exercise rider — will make her first start of ’19 when she sounds out Uncontested in the G3 General George.

It’s all going “according to plan” with Still Having Fun, as he breezed this morning towards next week’s G3 General George at Laurel Park.

With new state subsidies, Monmouth Park is adding days in 2019 and bolstering purses, which are expected to hit about $500,000 daily.

Laurel Park’s six-Saturday Cure the Winter Blues handicapping contest will kick off Feb. 16.