West Virginia
Charles Town cancels Feb. 20 card
With bitter cold in the forecast, Charles Town Races has canceled its scheduled live racing card for Thursday, Feb. 20.
Charles Town releases 2025 stakes schedule
Charles Town’s 2025 stakes schedule, which closely mirrors its 2024 calendar, kicks off April 12, with the track’s biggest day set for Aug. 22.
Trainer James W. Casey passes at 92
James W. Casey, whose remarkable second career as a trainer, owner, and breeder followed a 32-year stint as a teacher, has passed away at age 92.
Charles Town set to kick off 2023 season
Charles Town Races will kick off its 2023 season with a nine-race Wednesday card featuring six races slated to have full starting gates.
Lookback: Charles Town Races 2022 top stories
We look back at the people, horses, and stories that caught our attention during 2022 at West Virginia’s Charles Town Racess.
She Figures wins WVBC Distaff first off the claim
A $15,000 claim from her last start, She Figures didn’t really figure in the WVBC Distaff Saturday night but nevertheless was a dominant winner.
Hopping Henry looks to Stretch – and straighten – out
In Saturday’s WVBC Moscarelli Memorial, favored Hopping Henry will get blinkers on and try to stretch out – and keep from drifting as in his last two.
WVBC: Resilient Bridging the Gap heads Cavada
When she was three, Bridging the Gap suffered a case of EPM so severe a vet recommended she be put down. Saturday she’ll be the favorite in the WVBC Cavada.
WVBC: Jeff Runco loaded for bear
Veteran trainer jeff Runco is scheduled to send out 15 runners in the nine West Virginia Breeders Classics, with four of them the morning line favorite.
Runnin’toluvya outduels Penguin Power in Gall
Runnin’toluvya outdueled rival Penguin Power to win the Gall Memorial, and sire Juba got his first stakes winner on a night of stakes at Charles Town.
Penguin Power-Runnin’toluvya clash tops CT stakes
Top Charles Town runners Runnin’toluvya and Penguin Power will clash in Saturday’s Frank Gall Memorial, which tops a card with four stakes.
Yesterday and today: June 19 racing highlights
Yesterday and Today highlights the best of yesterday’s mid-Atlantic racing and looks ahead to today’s action.
Yesterday and today: June 18 racing highlights
Yesterday and Today highlights the best of yesterday’s mid-Atlantic racing and looks ahead to today’s action.
Yesterday and today: June 17 racing highlights
Yesterday and Today highlights the best of yesterday’s mid-Atlantic racing and looks ahead to today’s action.
Yesterday and today: June 16 racing highlights
Yesterday and Today highlights the best of yesterday’s mid-Atlantic racing and looks ahead to today’s action.
Yesterday and today: June 15 racing highlights
Yesterday and Today highlights the best of yesterday’s mid-Atlantic racing and looks ahead to today’s action.
Charles Town to move two WV-bred stakes
Charles Town will switch two West Virginia-bred stakes that are “Win and You’re In” for West Virginia Breeders Classics to its Charles Town Oaks card September 17.
Claimbox: May Mid-Atlantic claiming stats
Claiming activity in the mid-Atlantic was flat on a month-over-month basis but 2016 to date lags well behind 2015, in our Claimbox report.
WV gubernatorial candidate calls for end to Thoroughbred subsidies
West Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Cole called today for an end to Thoroughbred industry subsidies.
Promising young sire Charitable Man dies
Charitable Man, the young sire whose top runner won the West Virginia Breeders Classic last year, has died.
