With Covid-19 keeping big-name jockeys home, riders based at Charles Town get a big and rare opportunity to have live mounts in graded races this evening.
Wellbourne Farms will take over Northview-PA, Charles Town hosts a big night, and more, in the week in social media.
Trainer Jeff Runco, who won the first two runnings of the Charles Town Classic, has three live runners in stakes on this year’s Classic undercard.
When Runnin’toluvya won the G2 Charles Town Classic a year ago, he was in the midst of a 10-race win streak. He has more questions to answer this time.
Necessity being the mother of invention, Charles Town Races will for the first time hold its two graded races, the Classic and Oaks, on the same card.
The Charles Town Classic and Charles Town Oaks, the two graded races on the track’s calendar, drew robust nominations for their 2020 renewals August 28.
The Charles Town Classic and Oaks will share a date this year – August 28 – and both will go for smaller purses in 2020, the former’s reduced to $600,000.
After two dark days, Charles Town Races will resume live racing Friday, March 20. The track also announced it will postpone the CT Classic to an as-yet undetermined date.
Moonlit Song retired, earlier this year, as the richest horse Tim Grams ever trained – but was immediately surpassed by Runnin’toluvya.
Handle on the Charles Town Classic card topped $5.7 million, far surpassing the previous high and propelling a record month for the track.