West Virginia-bred Never Compromise has won four straight and six of seven, and the Ollie Figgins trainee may soon try stakes company.
Miss Henny Penny, a 12-year-old broodmare, had quite the productive week, with her yearling selling well Monday and two racers winning WVBC races Saturday.
Familiar foes – Golden Key, Aaron’s Tap and Hypothesis – meet in Saturday’s Last Enchantment S. at Charles Town, and juveniles meet in two other stakes.
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.
Favorites were out of the money as upset-minded V.I.P. Ticket won the Confucius Say and Door Buster took the Its Binn Too Long at Charles Town.
Denis Araujo was leading the Charles Town jockey colony in wins before a minor injury, visa problems, and Covid-19 hit. Now he’s working to build back.
A fire Wednesday night in one of the new Laurel Park tent-style barns left the gelding Pappa Portmore dead and trainers and workers shaken up.
William and Mary, ineligible for last month’s WVBC, looks strong as he tries to make amends in Saturday’s West Virginia Futurity at Charles Town.
More than two dozen horses that have started at Charles Town in recent years have shown up in Breeders’ Cup races, including a two-time BC champ.
It’s important for a trainer to have people he can trust in key positions. For Ollie Figgins, III his key people are kin: his younger brother and his 21-year-old daughter.