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A Night At The Races

Join the Morrow County Chamber of Commerce for a Night At The Races. Your Ticket includes dinner and two drink tickets. We will have betting for digital horse races, 50/50, and other fun throughout the evening.

Friday, May 1, 2026 at 5:30 PM

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DERBY DAY! Night At The Races 2026 is a fun, exciting time with friends. We will have actual horse races on a projection screen for you to bet on.  An announcer will be running the event who will make sure the owner of each horse is mentioned several times.  This helps when you are cheering on your horse.  Horse Ownership and naming rights to the horses in the first 10 races of the event are sold before the night of the event.  Winning owners are presented with a commemorative trophy.
There will be horse betting windows to accept the horse bets.  All bets are $2.

There are two types of bets that can be made on each race.  Win bets and Perfecta bets.  Payoffs will be determined by the number of people who correctly select the winning horse or perfecta combination. Typically, winning bets return $5-$15, depending on the number of successful selections.

Winning perfecta bets pay a minimum of $25, but the prize will grow if no one selects the winning perfecta combination.  The perfecta prize pool will grow if there is no winner, and we will “roll over” the perfecta prize pool into the following race until we get a winner.  It is not uncommon to have a winning perfecta payout over $200 when a multi-race perfecta carryover occurs.

The last race of the night will have empty names for the horses and owners at the start of the evening.  During the evening, the ownership of the horses in the auction race will be auctioned off to the highest bidder in the room.  Winning owners will name their horse and select their “post position.” 

Once all 10 horses have been sold, the money raised from these 10 auctions will be split evenly. 50% to the Chamber Scholarship fund, and 50% will be paid to the owner of the winning horse in the auction race. 

We will 50/50 and side boards as well. 

 
NOTE: There will be 11 races (2 sponsorships are already spoken for as of the middle of March)
 
Dinner and drinks will start at 5:30 and will be catered by GRABB Catering (A new Chamber member!). We are having pulled Pork, Chicken, green beans, mac and cheese, and desserts – brownies (peanut butter, original or salted caramel). Yum!
 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

5:15p-6:30p — BAR, DINNER BUFFET

6:30p – National anthem and directions will be announced and

1ST RACE BEGINS

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Tickets are $40 per person — includes dinner and two drink tickets.

Location

Cardinal Center

616 State Rte 61
Marengo, OH 43334

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