Over six dozen runners — including a total of 16 from the powerful Todd Pletcher and Bob Baffert barns — have been nominated to the G2 Charles Town Classic.
In a pair of preps for next month’s Charles Town stakes, Lake Ponchatrain is favored in the distaff version, while Runnin’toluvya dominated the boys’.
Apprentice jock Keimar Trotman is currently leading rider at Charles Town, but his Eclipse dreams are on hold for the moment after suffering a minor injury this week.
We catch up with the week in Charles Town racing.
Ghost Fever – full sis to local stars Hidden Canyon and Bullets Fever – is belatedly blazing her own trail with three straight wins.
Moonlit Song is odds-on to take an open, West Virginia-bred allowance Thursday at Charles Town Races.
Hero’s Man dazzled in his debut at Charles Town and may be poised to be the latest stellar runner from owner-trainer-breeder James W. Casey’s operation.
For Barbara Jo Rubin, the first woman to win a US race, it was always about the horses – and never about the history she made.
Fifty years later, Barbara Jo Rubin – “First girl jockey ever to win a race in the US,” according to the offical win photo – returned to Charles Town Friday to be honored for her historic win.
Mini Bolt gave owner-trainer Nelsi Roman-Salon the best Valentine’s Day present of all: a maiden-breaking win that was also her first as a trainer.
