Wellbourne Farms will take over Northview-PA, Charles Town hosts a big night, and more, in the week in social media.
Trainer Jeff Runco, who won the first two runnings of the Charles Town Classic, has three live runners in stakes on this year’s Classic undercard.
Necessity being the mother of invention, Charles Town Races will for the first time hold its two graded races, the Classic and Oaks, on the same card.
The Charles Town Classic and Charles Town Oaks, the two graded races on the track’s calendar, drew robust nominations for their 2020 renewals August 28.
The Charles Town Classic and Oaks will share a date this year – August 28 – and both will go for smaller purses in 2020, the former’s reduced to $600,000.
After two dark days, Charles Town Races will resume live racing Friday, March 20. The track also announced it will postpone the CT Classic to an as-yet undetermined date.
Moonlit Song retired, earlier this year, as the richest horse Tim Grams ever trained – but was immediately surpassed by Runnin’toluvya.
Handle on the Charles Town Classic card topped $5.7 million, far surpassing the previous high and propelling a record month for the track.
For the first time, a West Virginia-bred won the G2 Charles Town Classic as Runnin’toluvya scored the upset Saturday at Charles Town.
In three open stakes on the Charles Town Classic undercard, homecomings were the recurring theme.