Late Night Pow Wow was the best horse Javier Contreras ever trained. He’s hoping her first foal, Late Nite Mistress, follows those footsteps.
Jockey Jevian Toledo won a pair of stakes, one aboard ageless Greeley and Ben, who earned his 25th victory, to top the stakes Saturday at Laurel Park.
Ronald Sigler is perhaps best known in the equine world as a dentist, but this year he’s been thrust by circumstance into training a string, too.
Saturday night Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races will celebrate its 90th anniversary and look back on an eventful near-century.
Two-year-olds Jubawithatwist and King Kontie tangled for the fourth time in Saturday’s West Virginia Futurity, with Jubawithatwist emerging on top again.
The ageless Penguin Power is, to his connections’ amazement, still going strong at eight and recently became the first horse to win five WVBC races.
Coastal Mission passed his latest test with flying colors, winning the 1 1/8-mile Sam Huff WV Breeders Classic by nearly six lengths with consummate ease.
The two-year-old races on the West Virginia Breeders Classics card ran to form, with Direct the Cat dazzling and Jubawithatwist battling King Kontie.
Trainer Jeff Runco arrives at WVBC night with a strong hand, including the favorites in the Classic and potential history-maker Penguin Power.
Trainer Kristy Petty will have her hands full saddling seven horses on WV Breeders Classics night, her first WVBC without longtime partner John Casey.
