West Virginia Breeders' Classic
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The West Virginia Breeders Classic is a thoroughbred horse race for West Virginia breds run at a distance of one and one/eighth mile on the dirt. Open to three-year-olds and up, it takes place each year at the Charles Town Races in Charles Town, West Virginia, and offers a purse of $500,000. Along with this race are seven other West Virginia Breeders’ races on the same day for West Virginia horses.
In its 20th running, the West Virginia Classic and its complement of similar races was created in 1987 by retired New York Giants football great Sam Huff. Huff owns Thoroughbreds, and was born and bred in West Virginia.
[edit] Past winners
- 2007 - Eastern Delite
- 2006 - Speed Whiz (Anthony Mawing)
- 2005 - Speed Whiz
- 2004 - A Huevo (Ramon Dominguez)
(Trainer Mark Hopkins's A Huevo, was disqualified from first and placed last in the 1999 edition of the race after a post-race test revealed traces of clenbuterol.)
