Saturday’s Penn Mile is the beginning of what the racetrack hopes will be a revitalized effort to boost the track’s national profile. Our Teresa Genaro says that Penn is following a path blazed by Penn’s corporate partner, Charles Town.
by Teresa Genaro No shortage of racing memories have been made at the track they call Old Hilltop. That hill in the infield isn’t around anymore, but there are plenty of people at Pimlico this weekend whose memories of the track and the race go back decades, and who were happy to talk to us […]
Assistant starter Chris Campitelli and the rest of the gate crew have one of the toughest unsung jobs in the game: making sure a bunch of skittish horses settle and break cleanly. Teresa Genaro gets the lowdown (with video).
Sometimes all it takes to find a soft landing for a racehorse is a little — well, a lot — of persistence. Teresa Genaro tells the story of one such retired Thoroughbred.
Atlantic City Race Course recently finished its strongest meet in years. But, Teresa Genaro wonders, what does the future hold for the track?
by Teresa Genaro Call me “the woman who left Keeneland to drive to Charles Town.” It’s true, even if no one would believe it. Charles Town Races sits in the Blue Ridge Mountains, roughly equidistant, a 90-minute car trip, from both Baltimore and Washington, D.C. It’s been around since 1933, and visitors walking through the […]