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Officials with Scioto Downs have issued a release to horsepeople regarding the track's qualifier and draw schedule.

With the scheduled date of the 2022 Pepsi North America Cup just over two months away, Trot Insider will profile some of the race's top contenders as horses ready to compete for one of Canadian harness racing's biggest prizes.

Mike Wilder is enjoying his second winter working with young horses in Florida, and the emphasis is on the word “enjoying.” The 49-year-old Wilder has driven in only one race since November 5, which was a fourth-place finish with Fourever Boy in the Governor’s Cup at The Meadowlands.

Aaron Merriman again topped the local driving ranks at Northfield Park in 2021, while Sam Schillaci earned the title as Northfield's top trainer for the season.

Scioto Downs announced a major project to build a new grandstand for its track on Thursday.

Columbus plans to order the Scioto Downs grandstand to be closed after an engineers report shows that its concrete roof is dangerously deteriorated.

Seven stalwart trotters went to post Friday in a Great Lakes Amateur Drivers Association Trot at Scioto Downs, and when the judges posted the official sign Alesha Binkley emerged victorious after she reined Wittyville to a gate to wire triumph in 1:57.4. Despite starting from the six-hole Binkley sent the son of Manofmanymissions to the lead when the gate sprung and she led her competition by that standard in :29.1. Despite Roundtown Rocker ( Peter Stratton) being parked the talented lady drive...

Winning Ticket established a new Scioto Downs track record of 1:53.1 for three-year-old trotting geldings as he cruised to victory in the first of two $50,000 Ohio Sires Stakes on Friday evening. The son of Triumphant Caviar, out of the Credit Winner mare Lotto Winner, is trained by Chris Beaver for partners Steve Zeehandelar, Tim Homan and Jim Burnett. This was Winning Ticket’s third consecutive victory in OSS competition and was a career best mark for the gelding, who is now undefeated in ...

Eldorado Scioto Downs will host the second leg of the Buckeye Stallion Series for two-year-old filly trotters on Tuesday (July 20). A total of five divisions, with 47 horses, will race with each division having a purse of $17,500. Four of the five winners in the first leg return for action in the second leg. The fastest first leg winner, Toes In The Water will look to make it two wins in as many starts for Ryan Stahl and Tye Loy. Toes In The Water was a winner in 2:00.1 in the first leg. Two fi...

Two $50,000 divisions of Ohio Sires Stakes for three-year-old pacing fillies were featured at Scioto Downs on a humid Friday night. Dragons Lucky Lady proved that she was just that as she cruised to a 1:52.2 clocking in the first split for driver Tyler Smith and trainer Eddie Foulk. The daughter of Dragon Again notched her seasonal fourth victory from nine starts, upping her 2021 earnings to $58,335 for owners L&L Stables of Springfield, Ohio and William A Hartt, of Carmel, Maine. Leaving the...