Author: Ted Black

For jack-of-all trades Gaffney, a burgeoning career and a new reason to stay home

Posted by Ted Black | Mar 23, 2017 | Breaking, Features, Racing, Top Stories, West Virginia, WV Racing |

He’s been a groom, a jock’s agent, an on-air analyst. Now trainer Hubert Gaffney has a growing barn — and a compelling reason to come home each day.

Grams’s outfit looks to outrun modest size

Posted by Ted Black | Mar 9, 2017 | Breaking, Features, Racing, Top Stories, West Virginia, WV Racing |

Trainer Tim Grams and his wife Judy have a modest breeding operation which has thrown plenty of useful runners, the latest of which, Moonlit Song, is a stakes hopeful.

Turnbull, Roll leading from behind — the camera

Posted by Ted Black | Feb 23, 2017 | Breaking, Features, Racing, Top Stories, West Virginia, WV Racing |

At many tracks young women are prominent in front of the camera as racing analysts; at Charles Town Katherine Turnbull and Bethanny Roll are thriving behind it.

Late-arriving Follow the Notion making a belated mark

Posted by Ted Black | Feb 18, 2017 | Breaking, Features, Racing, Top Stories, West Virginia, WV Racing |

Follow the Notion didn’t race till age three and didn’t find his stride until five. Now six, the late-arriving runner is one of the best at Charles Town.