With more days, bigger purses, and Maryland on hiatus, Colonial Downs, and its horsemen and jockeys, are hoping 2025 is its biggest meet yet.
Your five-minute read to catch up on racing highlights from around the Mid-Atlantic this past week!
Colonial Downs will open its stable area for the summer meet June 23, with training to begin June 25, the track announced.
Colonial Downs will for the first time host a Claiming Crown Preview day on Aug. 21 featuring eight races run under starter allowance conditions.
An expanded live racing schedule, featuring higher overnight purses and more stakes races, are on tap at Colonial Downs this summer.
Colonial Downs will host an August day of racing in which the races are automatic qualifying races for November’s Claiming Crown.
The way the Virginia Derby unfolded was exactly to the plan mapped out by American Promise’s trainer D. Wayne Lukas.
Your five-minute read to catch up on all the Mid-Atlantic racing action you may have missed over the weekend…
D. Wayne Lukas has himself another Kentucky Derby horse, as the suddenly mature American Promise blitzed the field in the Virginia Derby.
The oldest and best handicapping source for Colonial Downs returns for 2025 — it’s Nick’s Picks, and it’s back!