Trainer Mike Trombetta and owner-breeder Larry Johnson teamed up to win two Virginia restricted stakes August 31 at Colonial Downs.
Saturday’s card at Colonial Downs includes five Virginia restricted stakes or handicaps. Nick Hahn checks ’em out.
Trainer Mike Trombetta, hoping to defend his Colonial Downs training title, will send out six in Virginia restricted stakes Saturday.
Four Virginia-restricted stakes on the Saturday card at Colonial Downs have drawn double-digit fields.
Old reliable Horacio Karamanos won a stake (of course) on the Colonial Downs opener, while trainer Madison Meyers got her first stakes win, too.
Trevor McCarthy rode three stakes favorites among the five Virginia-restricted stakes Friday at Laurel Park, and he booted all three home to victory.
Edward P. Evans Stakes winner Largent is 2-5 on the morning line for Friday’s Bert Allen Stakes for Va-breds, which tops the Laurel Park card.
With the cancellation of the Colonial Downs race meet, five stakes for Virginia-bred or -sired horses will take place Friday at Laurel Park.
Pending Virginia Racing Commission approval, Maryland’s Laurel Park will play host to five stakes restricted to Virginia-bred or -sired runners.
The Colonial Downs meet closed Saturday with five Virginia-bred races, including a rare visit by Kent Desormeaux to New Kent to win the Camptown.