Following Charles Town Classic night, the top contenders for the biggest races on WV Breeders’ Classics (WVBC) night began to come into focus.
The bettors had it right, as favorites took three WV-bred races on Friday’s Charles Town Classic card, including Star of Night who won the Sadie Hawkins.
Friday’s state-bred Sadie Hawkins Stakes at Charles Town provides a rematch of Star of Night and Bridging the Gap, one-two in last year’s My SIster Pearl.
Star of Night earned West Virginia-bred Horse of the Year honors from the WVTBA, while six award winners were sired by Fiber Sonde.
Charles Town Races has come under fire this year for a spate of breakdowns, but trainers and jockeys at the track said it’s not the racing strip itself that’s to blame.
River Crosroad RVF has a little bit of talent — and an unfortunate habit of bolting off the racetrack and towards home.
Jockey Arnaldo Bocachica earned his 2,000th career win last week — and says he’s already looking ahead to what’s next.
Within the space of an hour January 8, promising WV-bred newcomers Ishihara and Missionsninetynine scored at first asking at Charles Town Races.
In our year-end jockey and trainer rankings for Charles Town, Arnaldo Bocachica and Kevin Patterson have the jump on their rivals.
Lewisfield will seek his second victory in three Maryland Million Sprint tries when he tackles that race Saturday at Laurel Park.