4/17 (CT): Charles Town Classic
 

10th (10:30) Charles Town Classic

1 1/8 Miles | Open | Stakes | Purse: $1,000,000

1 Fiddlers Afleet (NY) C Hill 114 12-1
2 Gone Astray (KY) R Albarado 114 3-1
3 Encaustic (MD) J Shepherd 116 8-1
4 Awesome Gem (KY) D R Flores 114 5-2
5 Acting Zippy (FL) T J Thompson 120 12-1
6 Understatement (KY) D Cohen 118 5-1
7 Indian Dance (MD) L Garcia 118 20-1
8 No Advantage (KY) J D Acosta 114 12-1
9 Researcher (VA) L A Perez 116 9-2
10 Redding Colliery (KY) A R Napravnik 118 15-1

One MILLION dollars!

More than enough coin for the newest Phipps soon to be star turned failure Gone Astray.

NT

I dont see any of those beating Researcher on that track.

The $9.99 post race buffet is on me if you and DrugS show up.

There isn't any $9.99 post race buffet at Charles Town. That deal is $24.99 and is straight prime rib.

The late night breakfast buffet on Sat is $9.99. It's all the bacon you can eat.

undercard anything close to last years?

3 other open stakes 75k,100k and 250k

DrugS might bring a contingent of homeless men.

It's the middle of the Triple Crown season and both DrugS and PG are going on sabbatical? The humanity!!

This is pitiful on many levels.

FTFY

I agree 110%, they have a pick four going and he is the single play in the last leg

my uncles got a horse in the 3rd at charlestown saturday...

#3 Carnival Wheat...im not sure if he's live so im just name dropping

Researcher is sure tough to beat at CT. M/L of 9-2 seems a bit generous.

:$:

He really is awesome at CT. 7/2 in retrospect was a gift. I tried to get cute in the P4 when it really was pretty chalky and got 1/2 on my money.

He ran well again for the repeat. I hit the P4 for 50cent, but i will take it.

Our table was right by Stephanie Beattie's. What a loudmouth. Totally low class. Cole was up there too. Nice guy although he seemed to be on the train if you know what i mean. Maybe he was just excited about his horse winning that stake. Gave out a nice winner at Penn though.

Everyone was getting down on the Paul Pompa/Pletcher horse. I am not redboarding when I say that I totally tossed that horse. He has 5 wins in 15 starts and 4 were at the Big A inner. I don't need to be a tenth as good a mathetician as Philcski or Dunbar to know that horse is a one course pony. What I didnt toss were the 1 and 2. I think if the 6 would have somehow won, he would have come down because he wasn't clear going into the 1st turn and he totally killed the chances of the 1 and 2. Awesome Gem ran lights out and I didnt think he could make it considering the way the track was playing and his running style. I still think the 1 horse (hushion trains) is nice and I will play him back later on.

It would have been interesting if Rachel were in this race.

http://www.drf.com/news/article/112277.html

Ignoring the obvious editorial errors, this is a really interesting article.