Trainer Jeff Runco, owner David Raim, and jockey Arnaldo Bocachica teamed up to take the two juvenile races on West Virginia Breeders’ Classics night.
Eight-year-old North Atlantic will make his fifth start in the WV Breeders Classic – seventh WVBC start overall – Saturday and figures to have a big shot.
With the West Virginia Breeders’ Classics coming up Saturday, October 9, here are five story lines we’ll be following on the big night.
With a stable that includes undefeated Muad’dib, promising juvenile Run to Daylight, and others, owner David Raim is hoping for a big WVBC night.
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.
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.