Category: Virginia

Colonial Downs hoping for “best meet yet”

With more days, bigger purses, and Maryland on hiatus, Colonial Downs, and its horsemen and jockeys, are hoping 2025 is its biggest meet yet.

Your five-minute read to catch up on racing highlights from around the Mid-Atlantic this past week!

Colonial Downs will open its stable area for the summer meet June 23, with training to begin June 25, the track announced.

Jump jockey Graham Watters, medevaced after a bad spill two weeks ago, will be back in action Saturday on Virginia Gold Cup day at Great Meadow.

Several Midlantic-bred horses are slated to tackle undercard stakes on Kentucky Derby day. Here’s the scoop.

American Promise, dominant winner of the Virginia Derby, tuned up for the Kentucky Derby with a five-furlong move Saturday at Churchill Downs.

Long a “second-tier steeplechase,” Foxfield Races has been on the upswing of late, pushing the envelope of what it can be, its organizers say.

Colonial Downs will for the first time host a Claiming Crown Preview day on Aug. 21 featuring eight races run under starter allowance conditions.

Champion Snap Decision looks for his fourth Temple Gwathmey win as the Middleburg Spring Races kick off Virginia’s jump season Saturday.

An expanded live racing schedule, featuring higher overnight purses and more stakes races, are on tap at Colonial Downs this summer.

Jill Byrne will take the reins as the new executive director of the Virginia Thoroughbred Association, representing breeders.

The Maryland Racing Commission signed off on a controversial proposal to blend Maryland-restricted and Virginia-restricted stakes Wednesday.

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