Owner-trainer Tim Grams first thought Maggie’s Girl would thrive in 7-furlong Charles Town Stakes. Now it looks like one turn is the answer.
Charles Town’s first two-year-old stakes of the year are coming up quickly, and the juvenile picture has begun to grow slightly clearer.
Duncan Idaho posted a sharp score in Charles Town’s It’s Only Money Stakes for the second consecutive season Friday night.
The speedy Moonlit Notion kept his spotless record intact with his sixth consecutive victory and first in stakes company in Saturday’s Coin Collector.
Moonlit Notion has won the first three starts of his career impressively — but he has a ways to go to catch up to his dam, 14-time winner Moonlit Song.
Jockey Larry Reynolds took a decade away from riding, but now that he’s back it’s like he never left, and even the faces in the jocks’ room are similar.
Saturday night Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races will celebrate its 90th anniversary and look back on an eventful near-century.
Stryda’s win in Friday’s Autumn Stakes will leave a mark on trainer Jamey Johnson, in more ways than one. It was one of four WV-bred stakes in Charles Town.
The speedy Maggie’s Girl has won her first two starts and, for trainer Tim Grams, conjured up memories of a couple of earlier distaff stars.
Millionaire Runnin’toluvya, winner of the Grade 2 Charles Town Classic and one of the top West Virginia-breds ever, has been retired.