FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY

AUGUST 8th 

AUGUST 1st 

JULY 24th

JULY 18th

JULY 9th

JULY 1ST

WHAT FAMOUS "ORVILLE" IS CONNECTED TO MARION, OHIO?

1) ORVILLE WRIGHT (THE AIRPLANE)

2) ORVILLE GIBSON (THE GIBSON GUITAR)

3) ORVILLE REDENBACHER (POPCORN)

MARION IS KNOWN AS "THE POPCORN CAPITOL OF THE WORLD"

JUNE 26th

Adios was foaled in 1940 in Indiana. He passed in 1965 at Meadow Lands Farm in Pennsylvania at the age of 25

Rodney was foaled in Pennsylvania in 1944 at Hanover Shoe Farms. He died in 1963 at the young age of just 19.

Our old homeboy Gene Abbe was born in 1944. He left us in 1978  at the ripe old age of 34 at Blue Chip Farm in NY.

JUNE 18th

What was the famous quote attributed to "Old Put" as the vastly superior British troops approached?

It was in the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 that he instructed Capt. Wm Prescott to tell the men:

Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

JUNE 11th

What Hall of Fame, World Champion mare got her start at Paulding?

While all these Ohio mares were Champions it was

1) Mary Mel

2) Killbuck Mary

3) Eternal Camnation

who was trained by Jeff Miller here in Paulding County

JUNE 5th

Steamin Demon (foaled in 1953) was by Demon Hanover, a foal of 1945.

What was Demon Hanover known for?

ALL OF THEM

1) He won the Hambletonian in 1948

AIRED

2) He was syndicated for a record $500,000
(by a syndicate led by John Gaines)

3) He was a family pet who was owned, trained, & driven by amateur Harrison Hoyt and his wife of  Bethel CT.  Hoyt had only been driving for four years.

MAY 30th

  WHO WAS THE YOUNGEST DRIVER EVER TO WIN A HEAT OF THE LITTLE BROWN JUG?

WHILE PETER HAUGHTON IN 1974 @ 20 WAS THE YOUNGEST DRIVER TO DRIVE IN THE JUG AND CHRIS PAGE WON THE JUG IN 2022 AT AGE 38, IT WAS 21-YEAR-OLD TYLER SMITH WHO WON A HEAT WITH  LET'S DRINK ON IT IN 2014

MAY 23rd

  WHAT YEAR DID THE MEADOWS OPEN?

(HOME OF THE DELVIN MILLER ADIOS)

1) 1958

2) 1963

3) 1968

The Meadows opened on June 28th, 1963

The Adios was first contested in 1967

MAY 16TH

 JOHN R. GENTRY'S PRICE OF $19,900 IN 1896 WOULD BE EQUAL TO $900,000 TODAY

MAY 9th

 Máthair Mháthairí

is an Irish term of endearment that means

 "Mother of Mothers"