The news that Shared Belief would headline the Charles Town Classic underlined a positive new trend: high-end horses showing up in unexpected places.
In today’s RaceBrief… it was a busy weekend, with Midlantic-breds in a handful of Grade 1 events and plenty of other intriguing runners. Here’s what we watched.
HRTV will partner with Penn National Gaming Inc. to broadcast the Charles Town Classic and several other races in the company’s Penn Gaming Racing Challenge.
Champions California Chrome and Shared Belief and 2014 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Bayern headline the 56 nominated to the Charles Town Classic.
Trainer Juan Vazquez, on suspension since November and asked to leave Maryland in the meantime, has three horses scheduled to run in the coming days.
For the seventh straight year, Charles Town Races will donate to the group that seeks to transition former race horses into new careers off the racetrack.
A pair of bills that would have had major impacts on West Virginia’s Thoroughbred industry — one “decoupling” racing and casinos — appear dead, advocates said.
A wrong-way horse disaster at Charles Town in December has led to a series of safety reforms the Jockeys’ Guild calls a good start.