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The Wiener Dog Derby will be part of a busy promotional event weekend at Shenandoah Downs. Provided photo.<\/p>\nWoodstock, VA \u2013 Shenandoah Downs will host its biggest promotional weekend of the fall season on Saturday (Sept. 27), with a special $5,000 Sports Fans \u201cOwn a Horse for a Day\u201d event, and Sunday (Sept. 28), with the annual Wiener Dog Derby.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Virginia Harness Horse Association\u2019s (VHHA) popular \u201cOwn a Horse for Day\u201d contest, where eight fans get a chance to own a horse for an afternoon and vie for a $5,000 purse, will take on a new twist this Saturday. In order to get an entry, fans must wear a jersey or shirt that displays their favorite sports team or player. Eight lucky fans will be chosen at random for this unique prize after the third race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Wiener Dog Derby will be part of a busy promotional event weekend at Shenandoah Downs. Provided photo.<\/p>\n
Each of the eight winners will randomly select an individual horse to own in the ninth race \u2013 that afternoon \u2013 and will split a $5,000 purse based on where their respective horse finishes. The first-place finisher gets 50% of the purse ($2,500) while second place gets 25% ($1,250), followed by 12%, 8% and 5 % respectively for third through fifth. The final three finishers will each get $100, so all contestants leave a winner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Winners also get a lunch voucher and a chance to meet their horse, trainer and driver in the paddock before the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s Wiener Dog Derby offers an afternoon of free family fun that includes the regular harness racing card, which begins at 1:05 p.m. The popular dachshund races will rotate in with the horse races starting at 2 p.m., with elimination heats after races four through seven followed by the Wiener Dog Derby itself after race eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Flippin Chicken will be on site selling BBQ, S & S Concessions will be selling $1 hot dogs, the bar will have a $2 canned beer special, and Sugar Creek Ice Cream will have many delicious ice cream flavors available for fans to enjoy. Parking and admission are free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Woodstock, VA \u2013 Shenandoah Downs will host its biggest promotional weekend of the fall season on Saturday (Sept.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-153680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}