Scioto: Page joins 8,000 win club for drivers

Chris Page hit a huge driving milestone of 8,000 lifetime wins when he piloted Later Dudes to victory in the fifth race at Eldorado Scioto Downs on Tuesday (July 28). Win #8,000 came nearly 25 years to the week of his first lifetime victory.

Page's career started in July of 2000 at the Knox County Fair in his hometown of Mt Vernon. It took him just over a year to get his first lifetime win, but it was only his 19th start. That day he won with Titanic Fella for trainer Erik Hall in a trail-blazing 2:09 mile going for $800.

Page's driving career started to take off in 2006 when he logged 750 starts, and he's averaged 2,696 starts for the past five years. Logging that many starts, it didn't quite take Page two years to accumulate 1,000 wins, as he got his most previous milestone, win #7,000, on October 6, 2024.

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Lifetime to date, the 42-year-old now has 46,600 starts with $89.47-million in earnings. He has won an astonishing ten Jerry Kaltenbach Memorial Trophies, awarded to the driver (and trainer) who earn the most in that year's Ohio Sires Stakes action. Page, Scioto's 2025 leading driver, accomplished a childhood dream back in 2022 when he piloted Bythemissal to victory in the Little Brown Jug.

Overall, Page had four wins on the Tuesday card and currently is the leading driver at Scioto, just ahead of 25-year-old Luke Hanners.

Racing continues Wednesday (July 29) with a 14-race card and 16-race cards Thursday-Saturday. Post time each day is 5:25 p.m. (EDT).

--press release (Scioto)--