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Great Darke County Fair
$32,000 Gene
Riegle Memorial Open Pace
Racing returns to Greenville, Ohio on Friday night, August 21st for the
Great Darke County Fair’s annual week long race meet. Racing also takes
place on Saturday, August 22nd, afternoon and night, and on Thursday,
August 27th and Friday, August 28th in the afternoons and nights.
Afternoon post times are 1 pm except for Friday August 22 it will be at
noon. Please note that Friday August 21st post time is 5:30 with 19
races on the ticket. All other evening post times are at 7 pm.
On opening weekend, Friday and Saturday nights will feature the Ohio
Colt Racing Association events. Friday night also will feature The
Terry Thomas Memorial Signature Series Trot. Saturday night will
feature the Rhys Bowman Memorial Signature Series Pace.
The following Thursday and Friday night sessions will feature the Dr.
HM Parshall Memorial Futurity. All the sessions will host several
overnight events for both trotters and pacers.
Closing night will feature the Fourth edition of the Gene Riegle
Memorial Open Pace. The event is open to the world, with no more than 8
starters; the top eight 2015 money earners entered will have
preference, no trainer’s entries. The event is carded as one dash for a
purse of $32,000, with $200 to start. We also will be hosting the Three
Diamonds Open Pace for Fillies & mares on closing night. This race
will carry a purse of $11,000 with breeding to Woodstock donated by the
Sugar Valley Farm to the winner. The Three Diamonds race has the
same conditions as the Gene Riegle Memorial Open Pace with $100 to
start.
Closing night will feature a giveaway of a collectable mug to the first
1,000 fans buying a racing program.
Nightly there will be t-shirt giveaways to the fans in the stands as
well as the fans that line the track by the Darke County Harness
Horsemen’s Association.
The Great Darke County Fair wishes to thank all of the sponsors and the
warm outpouring of contributions to make this year’s events possible.
Please check out all the sponsors, activities, & the condition
sheets at www.generieglememorial.com along with lots of photos and
information on Hall of Famer Gene Riegle.
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