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Sellout crowd watches Incredibolt win $500,000 Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs

Tens of thousands of race fans headed to Colonial Downs Racetrack in New Kent County on Saturday for a day of betting and ...
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Colonial Downs will host a record 48 days of live racing in Virginia this season

Colonial Downs is hosting a record 48 days of racing this season, headlined by the Virginia Derby, the Commonwealth's only ...

Colonial Downs gears up for the Virginia Derby this weekend

After Saturday’s Virginia Derby, the summer racing season runs from June 25 through Sept. 7, for a total of 48 days of live ...
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Colonial Downs Gearing up for Virginia Derby Weekend in New Kent

The Virginia Derby will be held this weekend in New Kent at Colonial Downs. (Colonial Downs) NEW KENT— With just days remaining before the 2026 Virginia Derby meet, Colonial Dow ...
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What was Christmas like in Colonial Virginia, the most English of colonies? Faith and feasting, to start with.

Then wash all down with good wine and beer, And So with mirth conclude the Year. — Virginia Almanac, 1765 Except for the feasting, an 18th century Christmas in Tidewater Virginia was simple and modest ...
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These boats ‘transformed’ colonial Virginia. A tour guide hopes to tell the ‘forgotten’ stories of the boatmen

This video is no longer available. Their contributions helped establish colonial Virginia, but the stories of enslaved and freedmen who rowed down the James River to move goods aren’t well known to ...