Multiple graded winner Sarah Sis has been installed as the 9-5 favorite for Saturday’s G3 Charles Town Oaks.
Grade 1 winners Lovely Maria and Cavorting are among 36 nominations to the Grade 3 Charles Town Oaks to be run September 19.
Churchill Downs announcer Travis Stone will take over racecalling duties for this fall’s West Virginia Breeders’ Classics XXIX.
The Page McKenney show rolled on in this weekend’s mid-Atlantic stakes action.
Each of the four will be restricted to West Virginia-breds and offer a purse of $30,000 on the September 19 card.
West Virginia-breds were the stars of the mid-Atlantic stakes show this weekend, and not just at Charles Town.
Five-year-old Hidden Canyon, riding a seven-race win streak, looks to prove he belongs with stalwarts Lucy’s Bob Boy and Russell Road in Frank Gall Stakes.
Walk of Stars dominated last night’s White Alley Handicap at Charles Town, cruising by 10 lengths to earn her first stakes win.
The 29th annual West Virginia Breeders’ Classics will once again be highlighted by the $500,000 Classic itself.
Tonight’s White Alley Handicap at Charles Town looks likely to belong to one of four shippers, among them stakes winners Brenda’s Way and Eddy Gourmet.