Sweet Milestone

On the surface Sweet Halucination’s victory in the fifth race April 23 at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races hardly seemed special. The colt won by 81/2 lengths after setting the pace, but hardly a day goes by in which some horse somewhere doesn’t win by that margin or in that fashion.

What made the victory so sweet was that it was the 3,000th win for trainer Jeff Runco. After doing some research, the track’s media department discovered that Runco had become just the 24th trainer in North America to saddle as many as 3,000 winners...