Streaker makes a run for it on chilly night at Charles Town

A little snow and temperatures in the 20s didn’t discourage a streaker from taking to the track Thursday evening at Charles Town.

“I've been in the business for quite some time, more than I'd like to say. I've been around for a while. This first time I've had that happen at a track where I've been employed,” Charlie McIntosh, racing secretary at the West Virginia track, told Horse Racing Nation.

The dash for fame happened after the first race, McIntosh said. “We look up, we’ve got this guy standing in the track with nothing but his sneakers on and a sign.”

The sign read, “Streaker #2 – bet to show again.”

“Whatever that message is, what he was trying to convey, I'm not quite sure,” McIntosh said.

McIntosh said the streaker had not been identified.

“By the time we got security down there, he was running across the apron and escaped over the perimeter fence there and jerked on some clothes and got in his car and left. We had a description of the vehicle, we gave it to the police department. We've not heard anything at this point.”

A spokesperson for West Virginia State Police said the streaker had left the premises by the time police arrived and had not been apprehended.

McIntosh said that because of the cold, “very few people were out on the apron, so he didn't quite get the exposure he thought.”

Still, he said, "it was kind of a first for me, a first for the track."