OHIO HARNESS RACING

A former football standout is getting a second chance at life, thanks to his diligence to make the most of opportunity he now sees with fresh eyes. Guest writer Bob Roberts shares the story........

He was trained to be a lawyer.  However, his heart was in racing.  And now the standardbred world is the better for it as Trotwood, Ohio's own Tom Aldrich is inducted this week into the Harness Racing...

He was 16 when he bought his first horse for $500, and sold it a month later for $20,000...proving that Greenville's Ronnie Gillespie was cut out for the harness racing game, and closing in on a thous...

A career, and life, far too short, one of harness racing's brightest meteors is being remember for how much he did in such a short amount of time. Bob Roberts writes for Press Pros....

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. ...

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 f...

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 Pre...

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 expe...

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. ...

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....