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After a contest last night at Scioto Downs, members of GLADA traveled to Northfield Park for two trotting divisions in the year-long series. And when the judges posted the official signs, Don Sherman and Larry Ferrari each emerged victorious in the respective $7,800 splits. Sherman won with Palmers Pride in 1:56.4 in the first division while Larry Ferrari copped the second one behind So Wishful in 1:57.1. In his split, Sherman gunned Palmers Pride to the lead from the four-hole and the veteran trotter needed a :27.4 first quarter to take command. But once on top, pressure continued as Joggint...

Young Eddie Miller just keeps rolling along. Tonight at Scioto Downs the talented youngster defeated nine others when he guided Bold Strategy to a gate to wire win in 1:56.3 in the $7,500 leg of the Great Lakes Amateur Drivers Association series. Sent off as the betting favourite in the contest, Bold Strategy returned a $3.80 win mutuel. With the crowded field Miller had little choice other than sending his trotter to the front from post five and they got first call at the quarter in :28.1. Surprisingly most drivers had found a seat for their steeds along the pylons and Miller was unchallenge...

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As Kris Brechler watched his family’s homebred trotter Mission Accepted grow up, he saw nothing that stood out about the horse. The colt was, in a word, average. But once Mission Accepted began his racing career, what Brechler couldn’t see began to become apparent. The horse was filled with a desire to succeed. And now at the age of six, the stallion is nearing $1 million in career earnings as he prepares for the $135,000 Charlie Hill Memorial Trot on Thursday (May 6) at Eldorado Scioto Downs. “When he was young, he didn’t make an impression one way or another,” Brechler said. “He...

The seventh annual Charlie Hill Memorial Trot gathers seven top trotting horses at Eldorado Scioto Downs on Thursday (May 6). The Ron Burke trained Mission Accepted is the 9-5 morning line favourite, however don’t discount Whata Swan, who was supplemented to the event. The connections of 18 horses paid the $500 nomination fee to be made eligible to the $135,000 race for four-year-old and older trotters, but per the conditions, a horse not nominated by March 15 could be supplemented at the time of entry for $10,000. And owner John Barnard of Miami, Fla. took the plunge. “He’s had six sta...