MGM Northfield Park has announced that both the Myron Charna President’s Pace and the new Tom Aldrich President’s Trot will carry purses of $100,000 when they are contested Aug. 14. Both were originally slated as $75,000 races this year.
Named for a pair of Northfield’s past presidents, the Charna is an invitational event for Ohio-sired pacers four years old and upward, while the Aldrich will debut in 2021 as an invitational for Ohio-sired trotters four years old and upward. They will be part of a power-packed undercard for Northfield’s premier race, the $300,000 Carl Milstein Memorial for three-year-old pacers.
“We at MGM Northfield Park are excited to offer these lucrative events for top veteran Ohio-sired horses,” said Dave Bianconi, Northfield’s director of racing operations. “They will be a great complement to our main event, the Carl Milstein Memorial, that night”.