Nick’s Picks: Colonial Downs, June 27, 2026
Nick’s Picks returns for 2026 with Colonial Downs picks and analysis!
Nick’s Picks returns for 2026 with Colonial Downs picks and analysis!
Check out Saturday’s Off to the Races Radio, which featured trainer Phil Schoenthal, Nat’l Steeplechase Assoc. president Al Griffen, and more.
Nick’s Picks returns for 2026 with Colonial Downs picks and analysis!
Nick’s Picks returns for 2026 with Colonial Downs picks and analysis!
Longtime Virginia horseman Woodberry Payne occupies an important if unheralded niche: breaking and developing youngsters at Ingleside.
Trainer Lacey Gaudet is taking 30 horses to Colonial Downs, which opens this week. But first: a win in Sunday’s Laurel Park co-feature.
Colonial Downs kicks off this week, and the first two stakes, both for Virginia-bred or -sired horses, highlight the Saturday card.
The two outfits based at Braeburn Training Center are looking forward to the upcoming Colonial Downs meet – the focus of their year.
Colonial Downs’s barn area will open June 10 ahead of this summer’s 45-day live racing meet.
Queen Camilla’s visit to the United States featured a stop at Virginia’s Smitten Farm, a top regoinal breeding operation.