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Jockey Arnaldo Bocachica (left), on top of “Runaldo”, raises his first in the air after securing first place in the 2024 Sam Huff West Virginia Breeders Classic at Charles Town Races.
Jockey Arnaldo Bocachica (left), on top of “Runaldo”, raises his first in the air after securing first place in the 2024 Sam Huff West Virginia Breeders Classic at Charles Town Races.
CHARLES TOWN — Following approval by the West Virginia Racing Commission, Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races has launched their 2025 live racing calendar. In addition to the calendar launch, Charles Town Races has announced that there will be a 5% overnight purse increase that will take effect on 2025’s opening night.
Racing for the year will commence on Thursday, January 2. A total of 160 nights of racing are scheduled.
Action will occur Wednesday through Saturday for the months of January, February, November and December. The only exception to the schedule will be on Thursday, November 27, when the races will be paused for Thanksgiving.
For the remainder of the year, action will occur Thursday through Saturday.
In special events, the Charles Town Classic is scheduled for Friday, August 22, and the West Virginia Breeders’ Classics are scheduled for Saturday, October 11. The Charles Town Classic has a post time of 5 p.m. and the Breeders Classics’ post time has yet to be announced. All other races throughout the year will have a post time of 7 p.m.
Charles Town intends on submitting their stakes schedule for the year in the coming weeks. The submission will include the stakes for the Charles Town Classic, Charles Town Oaks, Robert Hilton Memorial, Misty Bennett Pink Ribbon and West Virginia Breeders’ Classics.
Last year’s Charles Town Classic (GII) featured a $1 million purse, which was the highest monetary reward of the year. The second highest purse of the year was the Charles Town Oaks (GII) at $750,000, which was the race that preceded the Classic on the same night. The Robert Hilton Memorial and Misty Bennett Pink Ribbon each had a purse of $500,000.
The vast majority of Charles Town’s non-graded races had a purse of $75,000 throughout 2024. Now with the overnight purse increase, those races will have a purse of $78,750 in 2025.
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Have you ever wondered why The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy and other seemingly secular shows tend to have so much to say about religion?
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WEST VIRGINIA (LOOTPRESS) – As winter sets in, the Mega Millions® jackpot is heating up, reaching an estimated $825 million for the drawing on Friday, December 20.
The cash option for the prize is $382.2 million. If won, this would be the largest December jackpot in the game’s history and the seventh-largest overall.
The jackpot has been rolling since it was last won on September 10 in Texas at $810 million. In the 28 drawings since then, nearly 19.4 million tickets have won non-jackpot prizes, including 51 second-tier prizes worth $1 million or more across 21 states.
The most recent drawing on December 17 produced 1,602,721 winning tickets at all prize levels. Five tickets matched five white balls for the second-tier prize.
One North Carolina ticket included the optional Megaplier, boosting its value to $4 million. Other second-tier winners hailed from California, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
Third-tier prizes of $10,000 were awarded to 55 tickets, with 17 boosted to $40,000 via the Megaplier. California prizes vary due to the state’s pari-mutuel prize structure.
Mega Millions has seen only three jackpots won this year, the fewest in a single year since its 2002 inception. The largest 2023 jackpot, $1.128 billion, was won in New Jersey on March 26 but remains unclaimed.
Mega Millions is the only lottery to have six jackpots surpassing $1 billion, with record-setting prizes won in states including South Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, and Florida.
Tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands for $2 each, with an optional $1 Megaplier to boost non-jackpot winnings.
Drawings are held Tuesdays and Fridays at 11 p.m. ET in Atlanta, Georgia. While the overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 24, the odds of winning the jackpot stand at 1 in 302.6 million.
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