Page 31 - Colonial Downs News Today

For those in Southside Virginia who are looking for employment, Golden Leaf Commons was the place to be on Tuesday for Greensville County’s annual Fall Job Fair.

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form, and the National Turf Writers And Broadcasters (NTWAB) announced today that Britney Eurton, Scott Hazelton, and Maggie Wolfendale will co-host the 52nd Annual Eclipse Awards, which will be held on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023 at The Breakers Palm Beach.

For the sixth year in a row, America’s Best Racing is challenging some of the brightest minds in horse betting to come up with their top three picks for key races every weekend leading up to the 2022 Triple Crown and then continuing through the 2022 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The handicappers face off in what we like to call the “Big Race Showdown.”

The first of 11 meets and 61 races spread across seven states through mid-November takes place on Saturday at Shawan Downs near Hunt Valley in Baltimore County with an eight-race card.

Our Delaware Park Handicappers' Notebook -- featuring races and horses to watch, track bias info, jock/trainer of the week, and more - returns for 2021.

Simplification could be a major player in the Pennsylvania Derby if he improves off his third last time and runs close to the form that saw him finish fourth, beaten only 3 ½ lengths by Rich Strike, in the Kentucky Derby, along with placings in the Grade 3 Holy Bull and Grade 1 Florida Derby this season. Jockey Paco Lopez takes the call on Simplification for the first time.

If it is indeed Robin Sparkles’ swan song, trainer Bruce Brown is hoping to send Michael Schrader’s 5-year-old mare out a winner in Saturday’s $100,000 Sensible Lady Turf Dash at historic Pimlico Race Course.

The New Kent County Board of Supervisors recently allocated up to $155,000 in Colonial Downs revenues for the construction of four fenced-in pickleball courts near the dog park at Pine Fork Park, located on Pine Fork Road.

Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will saddle a pair of top contenders in Kalifornia Queen and Love And Thunder in Saturday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Athena, a nine-furlong inner turf test for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

Peter Howe passed away on Thursday, September 15. In his memory, we are republishing this piece by Betsy Burke Parker from the Temple Gwathmey Steeplechase Foundation, originally published in July, 2020.