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.
Though he didn’t make the races until late January, Golden Key is making up for lost time. On Saturday he won his third straight at Charles Town.
Three-year-old Golden Key earned the first stakes win of his career, taking the Coin Collector at Charles Town in a frantic finish.
With a full field of runners seeking their first stakes win, Brigintine Island was miles the best in winning Charles Town’s Original Gold Stakes.
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 $15,000 claim from her last start, She Figures didn’t really figure in the WVBC Distaff Saturday night but nevertheless was a dominant winner.
On a recent race day, a pair of 11-year-olds, Moments Notiz and Cherokee Blessing, struck a blow for the older set with back-to-back win at Charles Town.
The week in maiden winners includes a 38th-race breakthrough at Laurel and two firsters at Charles Town.
Among the week’s maiden breakers were longshot Ten Oaks Miss at Laurel, as well as three graduates for Jeff Runco and two for Ronney Brown.
In our weekly roundup, racing action around the region you might have missed…