Chris Page is shown with his wife Brianna, son Carter, and daughter Avery celebrating his 8,000th career driving win with Later Dudes, trained by Ron Burke, following race five of the July 28 card at Eldorado Scioto Downs. (Conrad Photo)
From Eldorado Scioto Downs
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). Win No. 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 Mount Vernon, Ohio. It took him just over a year to get his first career win, but it was only his 19th start. That day he won with Titanic Fella for trainer Erik Hall in a trailblazing 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 log 1,000 wins as he got his most previous milestone, win No. 7,000, on Oct. 6, 2024.
Lifetime to date, the 42-year-old reinsman now 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 money 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 in second.