Runnin'toluvya

Runnin’toluvya needed three starts to post his first career win. Three weeks later he showed it was no fluke with a one-length win in the West Virginia Vincent Moscarelli Memorial Breeders' Classic Stakes in October 2016 at Charles Town. He was unplaced in  a stakes race at Laurel in his final race as a 2-year-old.

Runnin’toluvya returned from a 17-month layoff in April 2018 and won an allowance race at Charles Town. After a runner-up finish at Charles Town in May, the West Virginia-bred Fiber Sonde gelding put together an impressive winning streak. He ripped off four straight allowance wins, all by open lengths in sprint races at Charles Town.

He followed with a 5 ¾-length runaway victory in the Frank Gall Memorial Stakes before stretching out to 1 1/8 miles to win the West Virginia Breeders' Classic Stakes by 2 ½ lengths on Oct. 13. He capped his 4-year-old campaign with a two-length win in the 1 1/8-mile A Huevo Stakes to extend his winning streak to seven.

After a 4 ½-month freshening, Runnin’toluvya won the seven-furlong Russell Road Overnight Prep Stakes by 3 ¼ lengths as a prep race for the Grade 2, $1 million Charles Town Classic Stakes. Making his stakes debut in the Charles Town Classic, Runnin’toluvya stalked pacesetter Diamond King from his outside flank under regular rider Oscar Flores. The duo dueled along the backstretch and through the final turn before Runnin’toluvya edged away late to prevail by a half-length and extend his winning streak to nine with his first graded stakes victory.