WVBC is starting to come in Focus after CT Stakes * The Racing Biz

In the night when Charles Town both the class 2, $ 1 million Charles Town Classic for older men and class 2, $ 750,000 Charles Town Oaks organized for three-year-old mares, the Jefferson County Oval also offered a quartet for West Virginia-Breds.

Next stop: the upcoming West Virginia Breeders Classics Night Card here on October 11.

In the final of the 13-Race program, TeachinTherelease lived his invoicing as the favorite of even money in the $ 75,000 franc Gall Memorial Stakes for the State older men bred. Under Carlos Lopez he easily got the command through the turn of the clubhouse and led on his way to a score of 2 1/4 length on no change. Hero of this event a year earlier, TeachinTherelease successfully defended his title in the Frank Gall by getting the seven furlongs in 1: 25.39 for trainer Stephen Murdock and owner Robert Cole, Jr.

“That was a very big effort,” said Cole of TeachinTherelease, who has now won twice in three seasonal outings after the end of his earlier campaign with a victory in the Randy Funkhouser Memorial of $ 75,000 that travels the three-edge distance from a mile and one eighth. “Speed ​​was not with it tonight and he went to the lead and made it easy. I would like to get it in a longer race for the [Sam Huff West Virginia Breeders’ Classic]But I don’t know if they get one to fill. ‘

Trainer Jeff Runco, who attacked the evening with Gusto by sending nine runners, saddled the winners of two of the other three bets on Friday evening, both for owner David Raim.

The Sky Is Falling maintained her sharp recent form when the six-year-old Cupid mare rallied from well off the pace to capture the $75,000 Sadie Hawkins Stakes for fillies and mares, and an hour later Duncan Idaho remained perfect from five seasonal outings when he prevailed handily as the 1-5 choice in The $ 40,000 Last Enchantment Stakes for One-Turn Sprint Specialists.

“I didn’t think she would get the same pace scenario that she did in her previous race, but it turns out that she didn’t need it,” Runco said that the Sky falls, who has recorded her third consecutive score and now has 12 victories and more than $ 400,000 of 30 career traps about the comic. “I told David that she is doing really well, and she showed it.”

Duncan Idaho, a full brother for the state -bred star Late Night Pow Wow, Muad’dib and overnight Pow Wow, conquered the last enchanting branches with 1 1/2 lengths in 52.02 as the opportunities on choice. Alert away from post eight, wiped Duncan Idaho to recommend a distant turn and then kept safe Anthony Farrior -Stagiaries Youthinkthatsfunny and Honeyquist in the track.

“When he breaks clean, he is hard to beat,” Runco said about Duncan Idaho, who now has 15 victories and almost $ 375,000 of 22 career trips. “He’s just a little better than this one. But the whole key for him is the break. If he breaks the way he did, he usually wins.”

While teaching herelease, Duncan Idaho and the sky fall, have the upper hand in a shaped way, for me for me a 19-1 shocker for me in the $ 40,000 autumn WVB overnight stays for the state who has been bred. With Joe Stokes Up, she stuck 1-5 choice at night Pow Wow after a long-term stretch struggle. A four -year -old daughter of Weave It To Me Property, bred and trained by Anthony Grigsby, Party Time For Me took her third victory of nine seasonal attempts and 10 outings in general by getting the 4 1/2 Furlongs in 52.51.

In the Friday opener, Time to Rock filed that he might be ready to tackle Stakes Company. With Jockey Marshall Mendez in the IJzers, the time to rock well from the pace came from the pace to conquer an open, one-turn fee for older runners by a neck in 52.04 as the Lauwe 8-5 choice. A four-year-old, West Virginia-Foked Uncle Lino Voorden trained by Stacey Viands for owner-breaker Jill Daniel, Time to Rock has made his third victory of six seasonal attempts and now has a 6-2 slate and more than $ 120,000 banked.

The duration was almost identical to that recorded by Duncan Idaho different races later.

“He is not the fastest horse from the gate, but he has a great final kick,” said Viands about Time to Rock, which will probably start next time in the West Virginia Dash for the classic of the cash breeders, where Duncan Idaho looms up the ban favorite. “If he still has a horse in his visor to turn home, he will run them down. I can’t say enough about the chance to train this horse. Jill Daniel gave me a chance with him at a time when I didn’t have many horses.”