Trainer Kristy Petty has sent out only three horses so far this year, but after the West Virginia Futurity, two of them are stakes-placed.
With Covid-19 cases in its jockeys’ room, Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races will not host live racing this weekend, the second straight.
Two-year-old Youthinkthatsfunny, a homebred son of Fiber Sonde for John McKee, earned his second straight stakes win in Saturday’s West Virgin
in Futurity.
Kristy Petty has two entered for Saturday’s West Virginia Futurity, including favored Juba Did It, but will have to contend with four John McKee trainees.
Off a weekend in which he won three stakes, Charles Town-based rider Arnaldo Bocachica has been named “Jockey of the Week” by the Jockeys Guild.
When she was three, Bridging the Gap suffered a case of EPM so severe a vet recommended she be put down. Saturday she’ll be the favorite in the WVBC Cavada.
Veteran trainer jeff Runco is scheduled to send out 15 runners in the nine West Virginia Breeders Classics, with four of them the morning line favorite.
Runnin’toluvya outdueled rival Penguin Power to win the Gall Memorial, and sire Juba got his first stakes winner on a night of stakes at Charles Town.
Top Charles Town runners Runnin’toluvya and Penguin Power will clash in Saturday’s Frank Gall Memorial, which tops a card with four stakes.
Like a lot of jockeys, Sunday Diaz, Jr. has had to overcome weight issues. But in his case, they occurred well before his career even started.
