After successfully sweeping the Miss Windfall Series at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino, Royal Passion extended her dominating win streak with a triumph in the second $12,500 leg of the Bill Thompson series Tuesday, April 24. The Rod Lorenzo-trained filly is now a perfect five-for-five in her sophomore season as she bested her lifetime mark to 1:55.4.
ESPN 1070 The Fan is giving fans a chance to win one of two great prizes. You can register to win Dinner & Fun for Four at Hoosier Park's Homestretch Steakhouse or a ride around the track. You can also watch 1070 The Fan's JMV as he recently took a trip around the track with trainer/driver and ISA director Trent Stohler.
Three divisions of the Tubby Trimble Series, a late closing event open to Indiana sired 3-year-olds and up that were non-winners of $30,000 life, were contested at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Thursday (April 19). Artychoke, trained by Art Gregory, Jr., was the first divisional winner and one of four wins on the night for driver Sam Widger. The 3-year-old gelding reached the wire in 1:55.4 with a closing panel in :28.4.
He never imagined that during his lifetime he would own a possession he could not be parted from if the price was right, but Russ Beeman has altered his outlook after breeding and racing his Indiana Sire Stakes champion and namesake, Dontfusswithruss.
Some of the top freshman colt pacers from the 2011 campaign turned in their first three-year-old qualifying efforts Wednesday, April 18. Fridaynightflight, two-year-old divisional champion and 2011 Indiana Pacer of the Year, finished a narrow second in his qualifying effort at Balmoral Park. With Todd Warren in the bike, the sophomore finished a neck behind four year old Best Man Hanover in 1:55.3. At Hoosier Park Racing & Casino, three-year-old pacers Mykindachip (1:56.1), Brown Titan (1:56.3) and Jammin Joshua (1:56.4) each won in qualifiers Wednesday morning.
Indiana Live Casino getting new name
Shelbyville's Indiana Live Casino is getting a new name—Indiana Grand Casino—now that the venue has parted ways with a management company from which it licensed the name. The move is the latest fallout from the racino's legal tangle with Maryland-based Cordish Cos., which managed the venue from its opening in 2008 until 2010. Cordish claims in a lawsuit that it was the subject of a smear campaign that cast the company as incompetent in its role at Indiana Live.
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The Indiana Standardbred Association will hold its next monthly meeting Monday, April 23rd. The meeting will be held at the ISA office beginning at 6 p.m.
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