Columbus, OH – Chris Page hit a huge driving milestone when he piloted Later Dudes to victory in the fifth race at Eldorado Scioto Downs on Tuesday (July 28). His 8,000th win 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, OH. 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 two years for Page to reach 1,000 wins as he got his most previous milestone, win #7,000, on October 6, 2024.
Lifetime to date, the 42-year-old reinsman has 46,600 starts with $89.47 million in earnings. He has won an astonishing 10 Jerry Kaltenbach Memorial Trophies, awarded to the driver (and trainer) who earn the most in that year’s Ohio Sires
