The Casey family started racing at Charles Town over 50 years ago. With two sons in the game and good runners in the barn, their run looks set to continue for years to come.
Part 3 of 4 of our 2016 in review, in which we take a sometimes happy, sometimes sad, and most often bemused look at the year that was in the mid-Atlantic.
Wednesday’s Swatara Stakes at Penn National has drawn a full field of 10, headlined by West Virginia-bred Charitable Annuity.
Russell Road, the ageless warhorse who surpassed $2 million in career earnings and won the West Virginia Breeders Classic three times, has been retired.
Saturday’s Grade 2 Charles Town Classic features a purse of $1.25 million and a contentious, wide open field topped by Donworth and local star Page McKenney.
Saturday’s West Virginia Breeders Classics (WVBC) is the state’s “Super Bowl Saturday” of racing, said one participant, and it’s about helping others.
Millionaire fan favorites Down Town Allen and Russell Road ran Saturday at Charles Town. Their differing results speak to vulnerabilities, and legacies.
by Ted Black On an afternoon that many Charles Town racing fans will remember as the day that Shared Belief pulled up as the 3-10 favorite in the Grade 2, $1.5 million Charles Town Classic, a handful of local owners and trainers had plenty to savor on an undercard which featured seven races for horses […]
Russell Road, the remarkable nine-year-old, led the field gate to wire to take the Confucius Say Stakes at Charles Town today.
Favorites usually rule on West Virginia Breeders Classics night. But Saturday saw one surprise after another, as longshots enjoyed a solid day.