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The event was inaugurated in 2009 with stakes of $250,000. With such a purse the race attracted several good fillies and by 2014 the event was classified as a Grade III with $500,000 stakes. [1] In 2024 the event was upgraded by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to a Grade II and the stakes also were increased to $750,000. [2]
The track's future was in serious doubt, and many observers feared the facility would close for good. Then, during the fall of 1996, voters approved video lottery machines at Charles Town. [4] The track was then sold in early 1997 to a joint venture of Penn National Gaming (now Penn Entertainment) and Bryant Development Company for $16.5 million.
In 2008, it headlined the Charles Town Races and Slots' inaugural Sprint Festival. Run at the beginning of summer, the Charles Town Dash is for three-year-olds and upward colts and geldings , and is set at a distance of four and one/half furlongs on the dirt.
10 a.m. Aug. 25 — Old Goat Track Club XC Classic, 5K, Waters Farm, Sutton (part of USATF New England All Terrain Series, first race of USATF New England Cross-Country Grand Prix Series ...
In 2011 the event was upgraded by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to Grade 3 status. [3] The following year the event was upgraded once more to Grade 2. [4] Charles Town Track Officials announced a new purse layout for the 2015 running of this race in order to attract the brightest stars in racing.
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