Several different races were held for two-year-olds Thursday, Sept. 30 at Harrah’s Hoosier Park. The $20,000 Alan Ladd Jr. Series Final was featured with BB Lucky Boy and Jordan Ross taking home the title in 1:53.1. Starting from post four, BB Lucky Boy didn’t use any early speed and moved to the inside as Mystic […]
Archives for September 2021
Brookview Farms heading to Hoosier Classic Sale
Brookview Farms of Shipshewana, Ind. will have a nice variety of yearlings at the Hoosier Classic Sale, set for Friday, Oct. 22 and Saturday, Oct. 23. Ten yearlings will sell in the Brookview consignment set for Aisle 14 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. The first yearling in the consignment is Smokarilla, a bay filly with […]
RND Standardbreds prepping for Hoosier Classic Yearling Sale
RND Standardbreds, representing Richard Frey, Norman Miller and Danny Frey of Northern Indiana, will once again offer some quality yearlings in the upcoming Hoosier Classic Yearling Sale, set for Friday, Oct. 22 and Saturday, Oct. 23 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Included in the consignment are three first foals from some of the top sires […]
Carson Conrad showing support for teammate
The Morristown community and surrounding towns received devastating news recently when Quinton Batton, a senior at Morristown High School, was diagnosed with leukemia. Carson Conrad, who is a sophomore at Morristown and a teammate of Batton, is working hard to show his support of his friend, even when he’s on the racetrack. “I put orange […]
Dunbar Hall wins Open Trot
Trotters were featured on the Sunday racing program at Harrah’s Hoosier Park with Dunbar Hall and Sam Widger scoring the win in the evening’s featured $22,000 Open Trot. Starting from the extreme outside post nine, Dunbar Hall showed little action early on as Kenziesky Hanover and John Delong reached the first quarter n :27.1 before […]
Ross wins three at Corydon
It was a long trip but it was well worth it for catch driver Jordan Ross. The Covington, Tenn. driver, who just turned 24-years-old last week, won three races on the 11-race program at the Harrison County Fairground, caught a loose horse, and returned to Harrah’s Hoosier Park for the 12th race to complete a […]
Swift Swanda wins Moni Maker
Harrah’s Hoosier Park was the spotlight of harness racing Friday, Sept. 24 featuring some of the top trotters and pacers in the country in the Caesars Trotting Classic and the Hoosier Park Pacing Derby. However, it was several Indiana sired horses who shined through with talent equal to the out of state breds, including Swift […]
Straight A Stable making the grade
(This is the first of 17 spotlights on breeders that advertised in the Oct. issue of the ISA Magazine) Straight A Stable will once again offer a strong contingent in the upcoming Hoosier Classic Yearling Sale. The event is set for Friday, Oct. 22 and Saturday, Oct. 23 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. The sale […]
Siblings win on Wednesday card at Harrah’s Hoosier Park
Siblings were victorious on the Wednesday, Sept. 22 racing program at Harrah’s Hoosier Park. Sunafterthestorm was a winner in trotting series action while her older brother, Smile High Jesse, broke his maiden later in the card. Starting from the second tier in post 11, Sunafterthestorm and trainer-driver James Yoder had little options out of the […]
Racing represented at Dan Patch Festival
(press release from Harness Horse Youth Foundation) The Harness Horse Youth Foundation in cooperation with the Indiana chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association participated in the 2021 Dan Patch Festival Parade to help commemorate the horse’s 125th birthday in Oxford, Indiana. Participants included Sonora and Jeff Dever, Bryce Nickells, Abigail, Lydia and James Platz, […]