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Fille d'Esprit
16
Aug
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Fille d’Esprit barges to Seeking the Pearl win

  • Frank Vespe / 4 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

A strong performance by Fille d’Esprit and a track-record setter who did not win were among the main story lines today with four stakes at Colonial Downs.

Colonial Downs
16
Aug
  • Buckland S.
  • Chesapeake S.
  • Colonial Downs
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  • Seeking the Pearl S.
  • Virginia horse racing

Experts pick today’s Colonial Downs stakes

  • The Biz / 4 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

We asked our Derby Bill, Nick, and Frank for their expert selections for this afternoon’s four Colonial Downs stakes. Here’s what they came up with.

Just Might
23
Aug
  • Chesapeake S.
  • Colonial Downs
  • Cordmaker
  • Just Might
  • Love Sign S.
  • Michelle Lovell
  • Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred Championships (MATCH series)
  • Mucho
  • Seeking the Pearl S.
  • Victory Gallop S.
  • Virginia horse racing

Colonial track records fall in MATCH Series stakes

  • Frank Vespe / 5 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

All five dirt races run Monday at Colonial Downs – including four MATCH Series stakes – produced track records for the distance.

Mucho
22
Aug
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  • Colonial Downs
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  • Virginia horse racing

Colonial: Chesapeake tops MATCH Series slate

  • Frank Vespe / 5 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

Monday’s Chesapeake Stakes at Colonial Downs tops the MATCH Series slate there, with three of the race’s entrants already having MATCH points.

19
Aug
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Colonial Downs: Familiar winners cap eventful weekend

  • Nick Hahn / 7 years
  • 0
  • 9 min read

It was an eventful weekend at Colonial Downs, and fortunately by Saturday, the excitement was on the racetrack with familiar faces taking the feature.

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