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Maggie's Girl
10
Apr
  • Charles Town Races
  • Lightnin Runner
  • Maggie's Girl
  • Original Gold S.
  • West Virginia horse racing

CT: Maggie’s Girl tops Original Gold field

  • The Biz / 1 year
  • 14
  • 3 min read

Maggie’s Girl, a two-time stakes winner in 2024, headlines a crowded and contentious field for Charles Town’s first ’25 stake, the Original Gold.

Country Cherry
04
Apr
  • Charles Town Races
  • Country Cherry
  • Golden Key
  • Lightnin Runner
  • Ronney Brown
  • West Virginia horse racing

Country Cherry could be next Brown-trained star

  • Ted Black / 1 year
  • 26
  • 5 min read

Trainer Ronney Brown sent out Country Cherry to a 10-length debut win and hopes she’ll join horses like Lightnin Runner as a barn star.

Lightnin Runner
26
Mar
  • Charles Town Races
  • Duncan Idaho
  • Lightnin Runner
  • West Virginia horse racing

What to watch at Charles Town this weekend

  • The Biz / 1 year
  • 14
  • 2 min read

What’s on tap at Charles Town Races? Here are a handful of races and runners we’ll have our eyes on.

Lightnin Runner
08
May
  • Charles Town Races
  • Golden Key
  • Lightnin Runner
  • Original Gold S.
  • Ronney Brown
  • West Virginia horse racing

For trainer Ronney Brown, Lightnin striking Gold

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

Trainer Ronney Brown’s good season got even better when Lightnin Runner scored in the Original Gold — named for his best trainee to date.

Great Spirit
29
Jul
  • Charles Town Races
  • Great Spirit
  • Lightnin Runner
  • Sylvia Bishop Memorial S.
  • West Virginia horse racing

Great Spirit looks to stretch out in Bishop

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

Stakes winner Great Spirit is favored as she attempts to carry her speed two turns for the first time in Charles Town’s Sylvia Bishop Memorial tonight.

Lightnin Runner
30
Apr
  • Charles Town Races
  • Its Binn Too Long S.
  • Lightnin Runner
  • West Virginia horse racing

Lightnin Runner strikes in Its Binn Too Long

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

A “demonic speed duel” meant hell to pay for the front runners, and Lightnin Runner struck to win Saturday’s Its Binn Too Long Stakes at Charles Town.

Marz Express
28
Oct
  • Anthony Farrior
  • Charles Town Races
  • Eleanor Casey Memorial S.
  • Lightnin Runner
  • Marz Express
  • West Virginia horse racing

CT: Division lead on line in Eleanor Casey Memorial

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

After big upsets in earlier stakes, supremacy in Charles Town’s two-year-old filly division is at stake Saturday in the Eleanor Casey Memorial.

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