Charles Town stakes selections
Picks for the evening’s major stakes at Charles Town, including the G3 Charles Town Oaks!
Picks for the evening’s major stakes at Charles Town, including the G3 Charles Town Oaks!
The Racing Biz today released its latest In Focus wagering guide, to the two graded races to be run at Laurel Saturday and sponsored by the Virginia Equine Alliance.
Legendary registered his — and trainer Niall Saville’s — first stakes victory at Laurel. He’ll try to reprise that in Saturday’s G2 Commonwealth Turf Cup.
Flattering Bea, a six-time winner at Charles Town, will look for a seventh win in Saturday’s Pink Ribbon Stakes.
G1 winner Force the Pass, third as the favorite in the Secretariat, looks to recapture his winning form in the G2 Commonwealth Derby Saturday at Laurel Park.
Multiple graded winner Sarah Sis has been installed as the 9-5 favorite for Saturday’s G3 Charles Town Oaks.
The Virginia Equine Alliance’s “Virginia Downs” will kick off its first of six days of live parimutuel racing Sunday at Great Meadow with a six-race card.
Belmont Stakes runner-up Frosted is the morning line favorite for Saturday’s G2 Pennsylvania Derby, while I’m a Chatterbox gets the nod in the G1 Cotillion.
A pair of Grade 2 races usually contested in Virginia — the Commonwealth Derby and Turf Cup — will take place at Laurel Park next Saturday.
West Virginia-bred Ruby Notion dominated her rivals in today’s $75,000 Selima Stakes at Laurel Park for her second straight stakes win.