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Putting on a Race Program at 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
    Vertical - New Vocations Racehorse Adoption
    Option A	PDF
    Option B	PDF
    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
    How to Read the Toteboard/Approx. Payoffs	PDF

• Full Page Fillers

  • Own a Racehorse	PDF	JPEG
    Own a Racehorse (color)	PDF	JPEG
    Race Sponsors/Officials Page	PDF
    Hoof Beats Magazine		JPEG
    Common Equipment Worn by
    Pacer	PDF
    Trotter	PDF

• How to Read a Program

  • Shartin N	PDF
    Illinois - Meyer on Fire	PDF
    Maine - Noble Yaz	PDF
    Minnesota - Burning Blaze	PDF
    New York - Golden Gypsy	PDF
    Ohio - So Romantic	PDF
    Pennsylvania - Sure R Lookin Good	PDF
    Wisconsin - Nordic Thunder	PDF

Other Information

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

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