2024 Lady Pace Honor to Lisa Schwartz

Lisa Schwartz, the long-time harness racing official, will be saluted as the 2024 Lady Pace honoree by the Delaware County Fair.

Schwartz has been Involved in harness racing her entire life. Her parents and grandparents on both sides raced Standardbreds, primarily trotters. Schwartz and her husband, Dr. Bob Schwartz, breed and sell Standardbred yearlings.

The Schwartz’s were honored by the Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association for their years of service to the industry with their Special Recognition Award earlier this year.

Schwartz worked 25 years as a commercial construction chief estimator and project manager and in 2018 she became a USTA licensed Clerk and Charter.

She is the Secretary/Treasurer for the Ohio Colt Racing Association, the administrator of the Signature Series and the scholarship administrator for the Christian Harness Horsemen’s Association and the Buckeye Fair Racing Consortium. She has been the Assistant Charter for the Delaware County Fair since 2019.

Schwartz will be honored after the Ohio Breeders Championship for three-year-old filly pacers in a winner’s circle ceremony on Jug Day (Thursday, Sept. 19).

by Jay Wolf, for the Little Brown Jug