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Sacramento, CA --- Shark Festival has rattled off back-to-back impressive victories here for Medinah Racing and Scott Ehrlich, with Kathie Plested and Steve Wiseman taking care of business on the training and driving end.

 

“Medinah Racing is the partnership of George McChrystal and Mark Kremen,” related Ehrlich. “We’re all Chicago-born and raised guys who met up at the Chicago harness tracks. For me and George, it was in the early 1980s, which also included Fairmount Park.”

 

After a couple of needed efforts to start off the meet, Shark Festival has been all Jaws as she has done the stalk-and-pounce to perfection for Wiseman while working her way closer to the $100,000 mark in career earnings.

 

“George and I watch races from everywhere in hopes of finding a diamond in the rough,” Ehrlich explained. “One of the tracks George was watching was Century Downs in Alberta. What caught his eye was her breeding, her ‘look of a real horse’, her spurts of talent and that she was using an older race bike.

 

“He called me one day asking me to watch the replays of her most recent races. After I did, we felt if he we could obtain her and get her into the Wiseman stable and their program, that between Steve and Kathie and their fine crew, that would be a good fit.

 

“Since we’ve gotten her, especially here at Cal Expo, she’s gained quite a bit of weight and really looks the part. And from that has come two straight wins. We know she gets her toughest test stepping up to the filly and mare Open this week, but she did win the filly and mare Open at Century over some quality mares and did it handily in first-over fashion.”

 

Ehrlich added, “We have high hopes for her.”

 

So far, so good.