Page 27 - Colonial Downs News Today

The 2023 live race meet will be the first at Colonial Downs under the operation of new owners, Churchill Downs Incorporated (“CDI”).

Despite the loss of her father in September, Jill Byrne plans to remain active in the horse racing industry.

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners’ Ari Gold, making his fourth career start and first in a stakes, jumped out to an early lead and turned back a game Lights of Broadway through the stretch to win Saturday’s $75,000 Pulpit at Gulfstream Park.

Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher will double up for Saturday’s $75,000 Pulpit at Gulfstream Park with Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners’ Ari Gold and Harrell Ventures LLC’s Sendero.

Former New York standout rider Angel Arroyo is hoping to rejuvenate his career at Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar, Fla.

Article by Jon Lees: Only on rarest of occasions has a woman ever taken up duties as a full-time racetrack commentator – but Jessica Paquette is bucking the trend for the current meet at Parx in Pennsylvania. Interview by Jon Lees

Richard Perkins’ homebred Oeuvre grabbed the lead nearing the sixteenths pole and held back the determined rally from runner-up Portilla to capture the $100,000 Pan Zareta Stakes Saturday at Fair Grounds.

"He’s as healthy as can be. He’s up, he’s peppy and he’s a smaller horse who’s up and at it,” said Cash of Cigar Mile longshot Double Crown

After breaking through against stakes competition last out, the son of 2017 Horse of the Year Gun Runner will look to notch a second consecutive graded stakes score when he competes in Saturday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Fall Highweight

For years, New Kent County supervisor Ron Stiers has called for better safety measures at the intersection of Route 155, Kentland Trail and Chesapeake Circle. The roundabout comes eight years after three people were killed in a vehicle crash in the area.