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(WOODSTOCK, VA — 9/16/2024) —- 95-year-old harness trainer William Fletcher collected his first win in four years during the fall season opening day card Saturday at Shenandoah Downs with 4-year-old pacer Billy Boy B.   The son of Roddy’s Bags Again was making his first start of the year – as was his nonagenarian conditioner – […]

Made the top two choices in the morning line, Deterministic and Grand Mo the First headline a competitive field of 12 entered in the Grade 3 $500,000 New Kent County Virginia Derby, one of six turf stakes on Saturday, Sept. 7 at Colonial Downs. Both qualified for Kentucky Derby 150, and both have transitioned to […]

Shenandoah Downs raises the curtain on its ninth season of pari-mutuel harness racing September 14 in Woodstock and continues a 7-week fall meet through October 27 with race cards every Saturday and Sunday at 1:05 PM. Opening day features a commemorative baseball cap giveaway to the first 500 fans along with live blues & rock […]

Trainer Mike Trombetta and owner Larry Johnson scored the natural double on Commonwealth Champions Day at Colonial Downs, as Hollywood Walk grabbed her first stakes score in the $150,000 Camptown and Sky’s Not Falling took the $150,000 Bert Allen Handicap. The connections were a nose away from a third score, as the filly Sail Theseven […]

Lewis S. Wiley, a widely-respected horseman and cattle farmer and long-time Fauquier County resident, passed away peacefully at his family’s home, Gordonsdale Farm in The Plains, Virginia, on Sunday, August 11, 2024. He was 86. Born in Salem, Virginia, on June 30,1938 to James Langhorne Wiley and Camille Dawson Wiley Sullivan, Lewis attended North Cross […]

Virginia-bred filly Paynted By Nancy scored Grand Champion honors at the Virginia Breeder’s Fund’s 23rd annual Yearling Futurity held August 26th at the Warrenton Horse Show Grounds. Owned by Daniel Wukich and bred by Quest Realty, the daughter of Paynter won the divisional title for Virginia-bred/sired fillies earlier in the day and advanced to the final round […]

The annual four-day harness racing meet at the Shenandoah County Fair in Woodstock kicks off Wednesday August 28 at 12 Noon with an 11-race card featuring 52 horses and $22,000 in purse money. Six pacing events will be contested to complement five trots. Five of the races Wednesday are exclusive to two-year-old horses including a […]

Five turf stakes showcasing Virginia-bred, -sired and -certified horses attracted large fields for Virginia Champions Day at Colonial Downs on Saturday, Aug. 31. Offering $725,000 in total, the four stakes open to horses in all three categories – the Camptown, Bert Allen, Meadow Stable and Nellie Mae Cox – average 10.5 runners. The Jamestown is […]

Albemarle County, Virginia – Cassiopeia Foundation 501c(3) is proud to announce the purchase of the Foxfield property in Albemarle County, ensuring the preservation of the historic site, fulfilling the dreams of founder Mariann de Tejeda, and providing a stable platform for the continued operations of the independent Foxfield Racing LLC 501c(3). The Foxfield property, with its […]