TROMBETTA’S DEFENDING CHAMPIONS RETURN IN SATURDAY’S MEADOW STABLE AND CAMPTOWN AT COLONIAL DOWNS
Posted on August 25th, 2025
NEW KENT, Va. (Aug. 25, 2025) — The Estate of R. Larry Johnson sends out the defending champions of Saturday’s $100,000 Meadow Stable and $100,000 Camptown, as trainer Mike Trombetta’s runners Determined Kingdom and Hollywood Walk headline the sibling 5½-furlong turf sprint handicaps for older Virginia-bred, -sired or -certified Thoroughbreds at Colonial Downs.
With nine races on tap, the Camptown is slated as Race 7, immediately followed by the Meadow Stable. Post time is set for 12:30 p.m. ET.
Determined Kingdom will take on 11 older males in the Meadow Stable, including last year’s runner-up Whenigettoheaven. The two met again in June and Whenigettoheaventurned the tables on Determined Kingdom in the Ben’s Cat Stakes at Laurel Park.
Determined Kingdom exits an impressive effort in the Troy (G2) at Saratoga, finishing a game third behind Bring Theband Home. Boasting six local wins, the 2024 Virginia-Bred Horse of the Year was previously trained by Phil Schoenthal but joined Trombetta ahead of his 6-year-old campaign. Drawing post 8, Determined Kingdom will be piloted by Mychel Sanchez.
Ken Ramsey’s Whenigettoheaven earned back-to-back Ben’s Cat titles, edging Determined Kingdom in the final strides. The 6-year-old son of Street Magician, trained by Nolan Ramsey, comes into the Meadow Stable off that victory. J.G. Torrealba takes the call and the pair from the rail.
Set to defend her Camptown title against nine older fillies and mares, Hollywood Walk exits the most prestigious stakes win of her career. Receiving a perfect rail-skimming trip from Mychel Sanchez, the Virginia-bred scored an upset in the Andy Guest Stakes on the Arlington Million (G1) undercard. With lifetime earnings of $482,731, the 6-year-old Animal Kingdom mare is a half-sibling to Mindframe, one of the sport’s top older dirt routers.
Chief among her competition is stablemate and fellow Johnson homebred Noquestionaboutit. The 3-year-old Great Notion filly moved up in class to win the Glenn Petty in her first stakes try. Noquestionaboutit drew post 8 and will be reunited with Jorge Ruiz.
The complete fields for both the Meadow Stable and the Camptown Handicap can be found on Equibase: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/CNL083025USA-EQB.html
Live racing resumes Wednesday at Colonial Downs with first post at 12:30 p.m. ET. Along with the regular Wednesday-through-Saturday schedule, a special Labor Day program is set for Monday, Sept. 1, with first post at 12:30 p.m. ET.
Tickets for the entire meet can be purchased online at www.colonialdowns.com.
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About Colonial Downs
Colonial Downs Racetrack, in New Kent, Virginia, hosts live thoroughbred racing on two nationally renowned surfaces – the Secretariat Turf Course, the widest turf course in North America at 180 feet wide and on a 1 1/4-mile dirt track. The Colonial Downs Group, which is owned by Churchill Downs Incorporated (NASDAQ Global Select Market: CHDN), also operates Rosie’s Gaming Emporiums® throughout the commonwealth, which offer innovative historic horseracing (HHR) gaming and full card simulcasting as well as Rosie’s Game Room in Collinsville, and The Rose Gaming Resort® in Dumfries which offers 1,650 HHR gaming terminals, full-card simulcasting, eight bars and restaurants and more than 100 hotel rooms.
