OFF TO THE RACES RADIO RETURNS FOR FALL SHOWS

Fancy Concho
Fancy Concho won the West Virginia Lottery Breeders’ Classic. Photo Coady Photography.

Off to the Races returns – podcast-style – with a 60-minute show focused on Thoroughbred racing and breeding around the Mid-Atlantic and across the country.

On Saturday’s show, we’ll talk about the evening’s 35th running of the West Virginia Breeders’ Classics races, plus a quartet of Breeders’ Cup Challenge races at Keeneland, and much more.

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Frank Vespe will do the hosting honors, and the day’s guests include:

  • Carol Holden, president and co-founder of West Virginia Breeders’ Classics;
  • Ted Black, Charles Town correspondent for The Racing Biz;
  • along with Nick Hahn, handicapper and contributor to The Racing Biz, and former Colonial Downs on-air handicapper Derby Bill Watson.

Off to the Races aired on ESPN Richmond from February through early September. Join us again as we pick up the chase in a podcast version for the next several weeks.

To listen to prior shows, please click here.

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