Victories

Date of Birth

Occupation

Linda

Allerkrantz

12.01.90

waitress

2008

1

Victories

Date of Birth

Occupation

Steve

Oldford

24.02.58

business owner

1975

48

12

3

For the second time in three years, STEVE OLDFORD has been named
HARNESS RACING MUSEUM AMATEUR DRIVING CHAMPION.
Steve's father, Gene, bought him his first horse when he was about eight. By
the time Steve was twelve his father had a stable of Michigan colts and
Steve started mucking stalls and traveling the Michigan fair circuit. Two
years later he was jogging and training, and when he turned sixteen he
received his fair license. He took a break from the track to attend Western
Michigan University, where he graduated with a business degree. Following
graduation he joined his family business, Oldford and Associates, suppliers
of components to the automotive industry. Steve also began raising
Standardbred and Quarter Horses on his farm in Croswell, Michigan. He
wanted to get back into driving, but family responsibilities prevented this
until June 2006 when, after sitting in the stands and standing on the
backstretch for almost thirty years, he purchased a trotter to race in the
Michigan fair amateur series. After Steve's first fair race, fellow driver
Kelly
Walker convinced him to join the Delvin Miller Amateur Drivers
Association. Thirty-four starts later and 2006 came to a close with Steve
experiencing the thrill of racing at the Meadowlands in the Billings Silver
Cup.
In the 2007 season, Steve saw over fifty starts and made a trip to the CKG
Billings Gold Cup. In 2008, driving Eng-Amer Bobby and Feeling Frazzled,
Steve won the Michigan amateur driving series championship and the
Billings Series point championship. He took another trip to the Billings
Gold
Cup where he finished second with Eng-Amer Bobby. In 2009, as a member
of Team USA, Steve traveled to New Zealand where the team raced at five
different venues and emerged victorious in the series. That same year he was
elected a director of the USTA for District 2-A MI.
2010 was a banner year for Steve. He won the Billings regional point
championship, the regional final, the overall point championship and the
Billings Gold Cup Final at The Meadows, piloting his own Celtic Merchant
to victory. Steve also organized the Great Lakes Amateur Driving
Association, with races hosted weekly by Hazel Park Raceway.
Steve's most memorable wins were at the 2006 Billings Series in
Charlottetown, PEI, where he won three out of the four races while finishing
second in the fourth. The 2008 meets at The Red Mile and the Delaware
County Fair were also standouts, as were his victories in the Billings races
and the New Zealand Challenge. Steve has recently returned from the annual
East-West Driving Challenge at Cal Expo, in which he won two races,
hitting the board in four of eight starts and leading the East in a
substantial
triumph over the West. Steve is also proud to have campaigned Grand
Circuit horses including Godiva Hall, Matts Waller, Ballroom Delight and
The Budster.

Victories

Date of Birth

Occupation

Oliver

Badura

01.04.79

Businessman

1997

43

2

2

Victories

Date of Birth

Occupation

Viktor

Bukreyev

14.08.67

Restaurateur

1999

283

16

10

Victories

Date of Birth

Occupation

05.09.79

secretary

2005

132

23

12