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Oak Grove globally prominent as record-breaking season continues
Under a decade since stone laid to dirt with the construction of Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel, the small track in Southwest Kentucky has found remarkable growth in betting dollars and eyeballs but has especially experienced a profound boost in racing quality as seen by one graduate of the racetrack rewriting the global harness racing record books at the start of the week.
Fields set for Oak Grove Trotting Derby, Oaks; Handle record smashed
Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel hosted a jam-packed day of harness racing stakes on Monday (May 4) that saw a pair of track records established in the eliminations for the Oak Grove Trotting Oaks and Oak Grove Trotting Derby as well as a day of betting that annihilated the previous handle record for the Southwest Kentucky track.
Getting a handle on handle
Across all 30 of the extended pari-mutuel tracks that raced in the U.S. over the last four years (2021-24), total handle over the period declined by 4.3% with average nightly wagering being down 1.7% and average betting on a per-race basis down by 5.6%.