In three of Saturday’s four Virginia restricted stakes at Colonial Downs, last year’s winners hope to defend their crowns, including two seeking threepeats.
On the strength of the biggest-ever win by a Virginia-bred at Colonial Downs, Gigante has been named state-bred Horse of the Year.
Chambeau and Determined Kingdom both won Saturday stakes at Colonial Downs, and for each it was the second stakes win of the 2023 meet.
Chambeau didn’t make the races until July of her 5-year-old year, but when she did, she delivered trainer T. J. Aguirre’s first stakes win.