Entering Saturday evening’s A Huevo Stakes at Charles Town, all of the runners have questions to answer and doubters to quiet.
With her main rival scratched, Shutupn’kissme controlled throughout en route to a win in the $50,000 Eleanor Casey Memorial Saturday at Charles Town.
Parisian Diva, last year’s top sophomore WV-bred filly, has only raced once in 2020 but is nearing her return to action.
Trainer Kristy Petty has sent out only three horses so far this year, but after the West Virginia Futurity, two of them are stakes-placed.
With Covid-19 cases in its jockeys’ room, Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races will not host live racing this weekend, the second straight.
Two-year-old Youthinkthatsfunny, a homebred son of Fiber Sonde for John McKee, earned his second straight stakes win in Saturday’s West Virgin
in Futurity.
Kristy Petty has two entered for Saturday’s West Virginia Futurity, including favored Juba Did It, but will have to contend with four John McKee trainees.
We spend a few minutes with Georgiana Pardo, president of Aftercare Charles Town, an organization which helps horsemen find homes for their retiring horses.
Off a weekend in which he won three stakes, Charles Town-based rider Arnaldo Bocachica has been named “Jockey of the Week” by the Jockeys Guild.
John McKee had a huge West Virginia Breeders Classics night, winning multiple races in his roles as owner, trainer, breeder, and stallion owner.
