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Nuclear Dragon is set to defend his title in Miami Valley Raceway's annual Jim Dailey Memorial Medley, in which he set the world record of 1:07 for a five-eighths-mile dash in 2022’s first leg and returned two weeks later to win the 1-1/4-mile final in 2:20.3.

Wintery conditions in Anderson, Indiana gave way to hot Grand Circuit action as the Star Destroyer Stakes was featured at Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Friday, Nov. 18.

After sweeping the Breeders Crown elimination and final, three-year-old trotting colt King Of The North continued his late season streak winning the $200,000 Carl Erskine, one of four Grand Circuit stakes featured on Friday night (Nov. 4) at Hoosier Park.

Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino played host to Hoosier Champions Night on Friday (Oct. 14) and the 15-race program provided a fitting conclusion to the 2022 Indiana Sires Stakes season. 

Indiana Sire Stakes continued on Friday, Oct. 7 at Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino as the three-year-old pacers competed in their eighth and final leg.

The final legs of Indiana Sire Stakes (INSS) action continued at Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Thursday (Oct. 6). Two divisions of the final leg for each the two-year-old trotting fillies, two-year-old pacing colts as well as the three-year-old trotting colts made up the second half of the evening’s card as the Hoosier State’s finest duked it out in their final chance to earn points before the quarter-million dollar Indiana Sire Stakes Super Finals on Friday, Oct. 14.   

Racing returned to Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Wednesday (Oct. 5) with a 14-race card loaded with Indiana Sire Stakes action. With Hoosier Champions looming just over a week away on Oct. 14, it was the last chance to earn valuable points to make it into the Indiana Sire Stakes Super Finals for the Indiana standouts.  

On an evening that featured the world’s fastest Standardbred in Bulldog Hanover and a mare defeating males in one of Harrah’s Hoosier Park’s marquee events, the supporting card was far from disappointing as many of the sport’s brightest stars sparkled at the Anderson oval.

Henry Graber Jr. needs only one word to describe what he most enjoys about harness racing.

A week’s worth of Indiana Sire Stakes action at Harrah’s Hoosier Park wrapped with the three-year-old pacing fillies stepping into the spotlight on Saturday night (Sept. 17).