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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!

Cover #1	Color
Cover #2	Color
Cover #3	Color
Cover #4	B&W
Cover #5	B&W
Cover #6	Color	B&W

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

  • 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

  • Drew Monti (NY)		JPEG
    Harness Racing Museum	PDF	JPEG
    How to Read the Toteboard	PDF
    Types of Wagers	PDF

• Half Page Fillers

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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