Thoroughbreds closely associated to the Old Dominion State take center stage Saturday at Colonial Downs in New Kent, which offers a Virginia Champions Day card highlighted by five turf stakes. The Jamestown Stakes, restricted to 2-year-olds either bred in Virginia or sired by a stallion standing in Virginia, is scheduled as Race 5 with a post time of 3:30 p.m. ET. It’s a 5 ½-furlong turf sprint and features a field of seven juveniles just starting their racing careers.
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Road to the 2024 Breeders’ Cup: Sneak Peek at Pacific Classic and Other Holiday Weekend Races
The upcoming Labor Day weekend is one of the most highly anticipated three-day stretches on the racing calendar, as Saratoga Race Course’s summer meet concludes, Del Mar in California reaches the second-to-last weekend of its popular summer meet, and the boutique all-turf meet at Kentucky Downs opens.
2024 Pacific Classic Cheat Sheet: Get to Know the Horses
Del Mar has a supremely rich racing history plus an incredibly fun connection to Hollywood stars, but when racing fans of my generation think of Del Mar, we think of the Pacific Classic.
HORSEPOWER: Michael Tabor was right to label City of Troy as ‘the real deal’ a year ago – if he can win the Breeders’ Cup classic he will shut up the doubters and have a podium of his own
DOMINIC KING: City Of Troy had smashed the course record set by the wondrous Sea The Stars by almost a second when bounding away with the Juddmonte International.
