Flat racers will share the spotlight with steeplechase runners on Virginia Gold Cup day, May 2, when three flat races will be run in addition to the jump races.
Secretariat’s 45th birthday celebration will take place this weekend at The Meadow, his birthplace, which was recently placed on the state historic register.
With legislation to govern Virginia racing now passed, new questions abound: Where and when will racing take place? And who will run it?
The fog may be lifting and the ice thawing in a Virginia racing dispute that canceled the 2014 Colonial Downs meet.
The annual VTA Stallion Season Auction, which takes place next week, has attracted some top national stallions.
The crowd at Colonial Downs’s closing weekend was thin, while 40,000 attended the Gold Cup jump racing. What’s the lesson there?
Saturday’s International Gold Cup at Great Meadow will include both steeplechase and flat racing and could be a blueprint for racing’s Virginia future.
The Virginia Racing Commission convened on a gray October day in Richmond, which was only foreshadowing what was to come next.
At today’s Virginia Racing Commission meeting, Colonial Downs surrendered its racetrack operators license, possibly ending the Jeff Jacobs era in Virginia racing.
Horses raised in Virginia are thriving everywhere but at home. Tomorrow’s Racing Commission meeting might, or might not, resolve the long impasse over days.