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Great Spirit
02
Jun
  • Charles Town Races
  • Crystal Pickett
  • Fancy Buckles S.
  • Grant Whitacre
  • Great Spirit
  • West Virginia horse racing

Great Spirit scores in Fancy Buckles

  • Ted Black / 1 year
  • 5
  • 5 min read

Great Spirit found her best stride late to win her first start of the season in Saturday’s Fancy Buckles at Charles Town Races.

Great Spirit
29
Mar
  • Charles Town Races
  • Crystal Pickett
  • Dr. Feelgood
  • Great Spirit
  • West Virginia horse racing

With undefeated start, Great Spirit conjures up memories

  • Ted Black / 3 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

Great Spirit, the half-sister to one-turn Charles Town titan Dr. Feelgood, conjured up memories of big bro Saturday with her third straight win.

Great Spirit
07
Aug
  • Charles Town Races
  • Crystal Pickett
  • Dr. Feelgood
  • Great Spirit
  • West Virginia horse racing

Great Spirit hoping to follow in big bro’s footsteps

  • Ted Black / 3 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

Great Spirit, the younger half-sister to champion WV-bred sprinter Dr. Feelgood, started her career stylishly July 22 with a dominant win.

Hypothesis
12
Jun
  • Charles Town Races
  • Crystal Pickett
  • Hypothesis
  • It's Only Money S.
  • West Virginia horse racing

Hypothesis guts out It’s Only Money win

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

Five-year-old Hypothesis won his fourth consecutive race Saturday, taking the It’s Only Money Stakes for the second straight year.

Hypothesis
10
Jun
  • Charles Town Races
  • Crystal Pickett
  • Golden Key
  • Hypothesis
  • It's Only Money S.
  • Ronney Brown
  • West Virginia horse racing

Hypothesis set for season bow in It’s Only Money

  • Ted Black / 3 years
  • 2
  • 6 min read

Charles Town’s 2021 sprint champ, Hypothesis, will make his season bow Saturday in a tough renewal of the It’s Only Money Stakes.

Muad'dib
07
Mar
  • Arnaldo Bocachica
  • Crystal Pickett
  • Jeff Runco
  • Tim Grams
  • West Virginia Breeders Classics
  • West Virginia horse racing
  • West Virginia Thoroughbred Breeders Association

Muad’dib, Star of Night share top WV-bred honor

  • Ted Black / 4 years
  • 2
  • 7 min read

A pair of Jeff Runco trainees with perfect 2021 records, Muad’dib and Star of Night, share WV-bred Horse of the Year honors.

Art Collector
01
Jan
  • Arnaldo Bocachica
  • Art Collector
  • Charles Town Classic
  • Charles Town Races
  • Crystal Pickett
  • David Raim
  • Jeff Runco
  • Miss Henny Penny
  • Muad'dib
  • Star of Night
  • West Virginia Breeders Classics
  • West Virginia horse racing

Charles Town: Stories that mattered in ’21

  • Ted Black / 4 years
  • 2
  • 6 min read

Nobody else has followed Charles Town racing as closely as correspondent Ted Black, who checks in with his top stories of 2021.

Hypothesis
08
Oct
  • Aaron's Tap
  • Charles Town Races
  • Crystal Pickett
  • Golden Key
  • Hypothesis
  • Ronney Brown
  • West Virginia Breeders Classics
  • West Virginia horse racing

WVBC: Salty crew set for Dash for Cash

  • Ted Black / 4 years
  • 2
  • 4 min read

Hypothesis, Golden Key, and Aaron’s Tap, who’ve taken turns beating each other, square off in the WVBC Dash for Cash Saturday at Charles Town.

Fancy Her Up
19
Sep
  • Arnaldo Bocachica
  • Charles Town Races
  • Crystal Pickett
  • Fancy Her Up
  • Gerald Almodovar
  • Henry Mercer S.
  • Hypothesis
  • Jeff Runco
  • John A. Casey
  • Last Enchantment S.
  • Rachel's Turn S.
  • Run to Daylight
  • West Virginia horse racing

Fancy Her Up Stars in Rachel’s Turn

  • Ted Black / 4 years
  • 2
  • 5 min read

Fancy Her Up dominated the Rachel’s Turn Stakes in fast time on a Charles Town card where veteran Hypothesis and Run to Daylight also won stakes.

Dr. Feelgood
11
Jul
  • Charles Town Races
  • Crystal Pickett
  • Darius Thorpe
  • Dr. Feelgood
  • West Virginia horse racing

Thorpe riding Dr. Feelgood to prominence

  • Ted Black / 5 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

Jockey Darius Thorpe has seized an opportunity to raise his own profile, piloting the speedy Dr. Feelgood to 11 wins in 13 starts at Charles Town.

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