Trainer Virgil Morgan, Jr. has made Scioto Downs his home, and a pari-mutual playground. And if any horseman doubts his dominance, just check the books that are stacked higher than the quarter pole. Guest writer Bob Roberts writes for Press Pros.....
Our premier of standardbred racing from Scioto Downs last week proved to be eye-opening...and mind-opening...because once again it showed that you can never know what you don't know until you see it for yourself.
At the rate he's going, if driver Chris Page was in the sulky behind Minster Ed he most likely would be the favorite and probably odds-on. And he might actually win. Read Hal McCoy in Thursday's Press Pros.......
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.
