Fly On Angel threw down testing early fractions and then had just enough to hold off the closers to win the Grade 3 Charles Town Oaks Friday night.
With Covid-19 keeping big-name jockeys home, riders based at Charles Town get a big and rare opportunity to have live mounts in graded races this evening.
Wellbourne Farms will take over Northview-PA, Charles Town hosts a big night, and more, in the week in social media.
Three graded winners, including Grade 1 winner Wicked Whisper and Grade 2 winner Tonalist’s Shape, will clash in Friday’s Grade 3 Charles Town Oaks.
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.
Your five-minute read to catch up on all the Mid-Atlantic racing action you may have missed over the weekend…
Lady T N T and local rider J. D. Acosta led ’em all the way to post a 37-1 shocker in the Grade 3 Charles Town Oaks Saturday night in the evening’s feature.
Our photographers are here, there and everywhere today and have the scene from the PA Derby, Charles Town Oaks, and De Francis Dash.