#Virginia Racing Commission

NEW KENT - Racing at Colonial Downs has picked up speed since the course reopened under new owners in 2019. Now, next year promises to be an even bigger season. Gov. Glenn Youngkin's office announced Wednesday that a trio of Thoroughbred stakes races are moving to Virginia - the Grade 1 Arlington Million, the Beverly D. Stakes and the Grade 2…

With the November closing of a multistate sale of assets from Peninsula Pacific Entertainment to Churchill Downs, the upcoming Virginia Racing Commission meeting on December 14 will provide new insight into a new era of racing at Colonial Downs. One thing will certainly be different. The new track owners will move forward without Jill Byrne, who…

The weekly TRC industry digest - a round-up of the international racing news from the past week. Europe: David Elsworth, one of the UK's finest dual-purpose trainers, has brought the curtain down on a career spanning 50 years, which will remembered mainly for his handling of the great Desert Orchid, one of the most popular racehorses in British…

Nearly ten months after the unsatisfactory outcome of Modern Games winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf as a "purse money only" runner, another confusing and frustrating incident involving an error left a sour taste amongst multi-race bettors. On Tuesday, Sept. 6, at Mountaineer Park, pre-race changes were announced for the card that included…