It's a whole different world sitting in the starter's truck for a harness race, nose-to-nose with the 2,000-pound beasts as they thunder at you down the track and I got to enjoy that exhilarating experience with starter Mike Woebkenberg at Dayton Raceway.
From tiny Mount Vernon, Ohio, Chris Page has risen in just twenty years to be one of the country's premier drivers on the standardbred racing circuit...and he, and others, are doing it in anonymity. Read ore in the latest Press Pros feature.
First-time-in-a-long-time trip to the Little Brown Jug revealed a lot of people I didn't think I'd see, and inside perspective of one of the world's best-kept secrets in big-time horse racing.