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Colonial Downs
06
Dec
  • Colonial Downs
  • Frank Hopf
  • Virginia horse racing

Colonial Downs will race 27 days in ’24

  • Press Release / 2 years
  • 2
  • 2 min read

Colonial Downs will race 27 days from July 11 through September 7 in 2024, with daily average purses expected to approach $700,000.

Fev Rover
01
Nov
  • Breeders' Cup
  • Colonial Downs
  • Didia
  • Fev Rover
  • No Nay Mets

Colonial Downs runners headed to Breeders’ Cup

  • Press Release / 3 years
  • 0
  • 3 min read

Grade 1 Beverly D winner Fev Rover heads a group of 11 horses who raced at Colonial Downs this year running in Breeders’ Cup races.

Thirty Thou Kelvin
13
Sep
  • Colonial Cup
  • Colonial Downs
  • Integration
  • Jorge Ruiz
  • Kendrick Carmouche
  • Thirty Thou Kelvin
  • Trevor McCarthy
  • Virginia Derby
  • Virginia horse racing
  • Virginia Oaks

For McCarthy, Carmouche, big Colonial wins feel like home

  • Frank Vespe / 3 years
  • 3
  • 4 min read

For veteran, New York-based riders Trevor McCarthy and Kendrick Carmouche, Saturday’s stakes-laden card at Colonial Downs felt like coming home.

Integration
11
Sep
  • Charles Town
  • Colonial Downs
  • Delaware horse racing
  • Delaware Park
  • Maryland horse racing
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • Monmouth Park
  • New Jersey horse racing
  • Parx Racing
  • Pennsylvania horse racing
  • Pimlico
  • Virginia horse racing
  • West Virginia horse racing

Mid-Atlantic Three Stars: September 11

  • John Piassek / 3 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

Your five-minute read to catch up on all the Mid-Atlantic racing action you may have missed over the weekend…

Gigante
08
Sep
  • Colonial Downs
  • Dataman
  • Graham Motion
  • Jill Byrne
  • Program Trading
  • Virginia Derby
  • Virginia horse racing

Rugged Virginia Derby field shows game plan paying off

  • Frank Vespe / 3 years
  • 2
  • 6 min read

Previewing the Virginia Derby, a Grade 3 race that’s attracted Grade 1 and Grade 2 winners and demonstrates a plan coming to fruition.

08
Sep
  • Colonial Downs
  • Virginia Derby
  • Virginia racing

Virginia Derby undercard stakes offer intrigue

  • Press Release / 3 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

Saturday’s card at Colonial Downs features the Grade 3 Virginia Derby along with five supporting stakes, several of which offer intrigue.

Thirty Thou Kelvin
08
Sep
  • Colonial Downs
  • John Terranova
  • Mission of Joy
  • Thirty Thou Kelvin
  • Virginia Oaks
  • Virginia racing

Mission of Joy tops Virginia Oaks

  • Press Release / 3 years
  • 2
  • 3 min read

Mission of Joy headlines Saturday’s Virginia Oaks at Colonial Downs and will face a field including last out stakes winnter Thirty Thou Kelvin.

Chambeau
05
Sep
  • Chambeau
  • Colonial Downs
  • Determined Kingdom
  • Horacio Karamanos
  • Phil Schoenthal
  • Virginia horse racing
  • Wesley Ho

Chambeau, Determined Kingdom star in Colonial stakes

  • The Biz / 3 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

Chambeau and Determined Kingdom both won Saturday stakes at Colonial Downs, and for each it was the second stakes win of the 2023 meet.

05
Sep
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  • Colonial Downs
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  • Delaware Park
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Mid-Atlantic Three Stars: September 5

  • John Piassek / 3 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

Your five-minute read to catch up on all the Mid-Atlantic racing action you may have missed over the weekend…

Will I Play
31
Aug
  • Colonial Downs
  • Gavin Ashton
  • Karen Dennehey Godsey
  • Virginia horse racing

No looking back for chef-turned-jockey Gavin Ashton

  • Nick Hahn / 3 years
  • 2
  • 11 min read

Former chef and footballer Gavin Ashton never rode a horse until he was 20. Now a jockey, he’s opening eyes at Colonial Downs and making up for lost time.

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