Charles Town Increases Overnight Purses
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Racing at Charles Town
Following another successful year, including record pari-mutuel performance, Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races has announced it will be increasing overnight purses by 10% effective March 23, which coincides with the first live racing program in the track's next full condition book.
Following the purse hike, maiden special weight's will be run for $32,700 with allowance purses ranging from $33,900 to $38,700. Horses at the bottom rung of the claiming ranks will compete for no less than $9,700. The purse increase will apply to both West Virginia-bred and unrestricted company.
The increase in the purse schedule comes on the heels of the track announcing it would again be supplementing West Virginia-bred stakes program allowing its purses to stand at $75,000 for 2022 and the Charles Town Classic (G2) and Charles Town Oaks (G3) receiving bumps to $1 million and $500,000, respectively. Last month Charles Town announced a stakes lineup for 2022 that, excluding the West Virginia Breeders' Classics, included a schedule of 30 stakes worth $3,450,000. The first stakes will be run April 23 with the $75,000 Original Gold and $75,000 Confucius Say for West Virginia-breds.
Charles Town's next day of live racing is scheduled for Wednesday, March 16 and will get underway at the track's standard first post time of 7:00 p.m. ET.