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Putting on a Race Program at Your Fair
Best Practices Manual
This was written specifically for putting on a race meet in Ohio, but will assist anyone in putting on a race meet, no matter what state you are in. We pulled a couple sections out to download separately, but you can also download the manual in its entirety.
Conducting a Draw
Race Official Duties
Entire Best Practices Manual
Seasonal Checklists
Below are a couple checklists of things to do to prepare your fairgrounds for a race meet:
Winter
Spring
Month Prior to Your fair
Program Covers
Using Adobe Acrobat, you can personalize our stock program covers with your fair information - just type your fair information in the blue boxes, save and print or email to your printer!
Program Fillers
Do you have short fields where your past performances only take up half of the page? Below are some program fillers/stock ads and instructions on how to insert them onto your past performance pages.
- How to insert program filler ads
- Adobe Acrobat Standard (PDF)
- Adobe Acrobat Pro (PDF)
- Quarter Page Fillers
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| Vertical - Generic Fairs | PDF | JPEG |
| Vertical - Hoof Beats Magazine | | JPEG |
| Horizontal - New Vocations Racehorse Adoption | PDF | JPEG |
| Horizontal - Brady Brown (PA) | | JPEG |
| Horizontal - Aaron Johnston (PA) | | JPEG |
| Horizontal - Nick Roland (IA) |
| JPEG |
| Horizontal - Approximate Payoffs | PDF | |
| Horizontal - Place Your Bets | PDF | |
| Horizontal - Hoof Beats Magazine | | JPEG |
- Third Page Fillers
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| Drew Monti (NY) | | JPEG |
| Harness Racing Museum | PDF | JPEG |
| How to Read the Toteboard | PDF | |
| Types of Wagers | PDF | |
- Half Page Fillers
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| Harness Racing Museum | PDF | JPEG |
| Rick Magee (WI - National) | | JPEG |
| Marcus Miller (IL) | | JPEG |
| 100 Years in Harness (book) | | JPEG |
| How to Read the Toteboard/Approx. Payoffs | PDF | |
- Full Page Fillers
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| Common Equipment - Pacer | PDF | |
| Common Equipment - Trotter | PDF | |
| Harness Racing FanZone | PDF | JPEG |
| Harness Racing FanZone (color) | PDF | JPEG |
| Own a Racehorse | PDF | JPEG |
| Own a Racehorse (color) | PDF | JPEG |
| Race Sponsors/Officials Page | PDF | |
| Hoof Beats Magazine | | JPEG |
- How to Read a Program
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| Always B Miki | PDF | |
| Maine - Noble Yaz | PDF | |
| Minnesota - Liquor'skwikker | PDF | |
| New York - Bonita Island | PDF | |
| Ohio - Jailhouse Sam | PDF | |
| Pennsylvania - Cruiserwillwin | PDF | |
| Wisconsin - New Achiever | PDF | |
Track Specifications
If you are looking to build a track or update the one you have, please take a look at these track specifications
Half Mile
Five-Eighths
Mile
Other Links
USTA Rule Book
Track Forms
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