After
making one of the best showings ever by an American a few weeks ago in the
World Cup of Amateur Racing in Finland where he won two of the nine events in
the competition, Steve “You’re Never Too” Oldford returned to the good
ole USA and emerged victorious in a Billings trot at the Fowlerville, Michigan
Fair on Monday, July 21
On that
beautiful summer afternoon at the Wolverine State’s award winning Fowlerville
Fair Oldford catch-drove trainer June Du Russel’s Rub A Dud to a neck victory
over What Do You Want and driver Larry “Overhand Serve” Steenbergen in a time
of 2:05.1. The show money went to “Lawbook Larry” Farley with his own
Rewrite The Rules.
“I had the
three-hole and sent my trotter to the lead and we opened up daylight,”
Oldford said. “ We had six or seven lengths all the way until the stretch
where Larry (Steenbergen) came charging but we held him off to win it,” Oldford
said.
Oldford
couldn’t say enough good things about trainer June Du Russel.
“I’d really
like to thank trainer June Du Russel for her continued her support of amateur
racing. She sent out two contenders today in the only leg of Billings action to
be raced in Michigan this year. Her second entry, in his first start under
June’s watch, was the forth place finisher, Bold Strike, with new Billings
member Jerry Mihelich aboard.
“June has
supplied Billings Gold Cup winner Rush N Supreme, Silver Cup winner Starry
Night, along with series winners Howmuchubench, Howmacs Amigo, and Ace Hanover
. June continues to train and race from her Millington, Michigan farm
despite the adverse racing conditions in Michigan.”
On Thursday
the east region of the CKG Billings harness Driving Series will have a
semi-final at Yonkers Raceway while on Saturday there will be Billings
action in the Midwest region at Northfield Park. And on August 1 at the
Meadowlands the annual Hambletonian Amateur
Trot is slated.
