Columbus, OH — With 230 horses entered for opening day, the Eldorado Scioto Downs race office put together 16 races for Thursday (May 11).

Highlighting the card is an eight-horse Open Trot for fillies and mares, going for $27,000. Swan Fine Lady (Chris Page) is installed as the slight 7-2 favorite coming off two wins and a second-place finish in her last three starts at Miami Valley after shipping in from Yonkers. Refined, who finished third in the 2022 Breeders Crown, will make her first start back after a three-month layoff from post eight. The 7-year-old by Uncle Peter, trained by Scioto’s 28-time leading trainer Virgil Morgan, Jr., won 11 times and earned $362,930 in 30 starts in 2022.

Swan Fine Lady is the morning line favorite for Scioto’s Fillies and Mares Open Trot Thursday. Conrad photo.

The Thursday card also includes three trotting mini-series events: the Overcomer and Full Count (filly) trots for Buckeye Stallion Series-eligible horses that did not race in the first leg of the Ohio Sires Stakes, and the John Konesky Trot for fillies that have not won a pari-mutuel race. There are three full divisions each of the Overcomer and Konesky trots, going for $15,000 and $13,000, respectively; there are two divisions of seven horses going for $15,000 each in the Full Count Trots.

New for the 2023 racing season, Scioto will offer both an early and late Pick-5 wager with a 100 percent carryover to the next day’s early or late Pick-5. The Player’s Pick-5 wager has the track’s lowest takeout at 15 percent. The early Pick-5 starts in race three, while the late Pick-5 starts in race eight.

The 90-day Scioto Downs live racing season kicks off on Thursday (May 11). The typical race schedule will be Tuesday-Saturday with first post of 3:15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and 5:50 p.m. first post for Thursday-Saturday cards.

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Information about the entire Scioto Downs racing season, including race schedule, wagering menu, VIP room reservations and more can be found at www.SciotoDowns.com.