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This year’s group included Champaign’s Fire Doll Artisan Chandlery, Urbana’s Cloud Mountain Kombucha and Georgetown’s Big Thorn Farm and Brewery.

There’s no shortage of grain in East Central Illinois, and while it can make for good eatin’, plenty of area entrepreneurs have found it can make for great drinkin’, too.

Accompanying the six-page guide to craft beverages in today's print editions: Luke Taylor's spotlight on Riggs Beer Company, Artesia Brewing, Treehive Meadery, Big Thorn Farm and Brewery, Tres Rojas Winery,

Caddo River Demolishes Smarty Jones Rivals As Oaklawn Meet Begins Sponsored by: Caddo River serves notice with a 10 1/4-length victory in the Smarty Jones Breaking from the outside post in a field of seven, Shortleaf Stable's homebred Caddo River went straight to the front under Florent Geroux, set all the fractions and pulled away to a 10 1/4-length victory in the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes on opening day of the 2021 Oaklawn meet in Hot Springs, Ark. Caddo River, trained by Brad Cox, paid $3.20 to win as the 3-5 favorite after traveling one-mile around two turns in 1:38.19. Cowan...

Sponsored by: Caddo River headlines Friday's Smarty Jones Stakes at Oaklawn No owner has won all four of what are now Oaklawn's Kentucky Derby points races, but one will have that chance Friday when trainer Brad Cox sends out Caddo River for John Ed Anthony's Shortleaf Stable in the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes. Probable post time for the Smarty Jones, a 1-mile event that highlights Oaklawn's opening-day nine-race program and goes as the eighth race, is 4:11 p.m. (Central). First post is 12:30 p.m. There is a 40-percent chance of showers Friday morning before skies clear and afterno...