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Ponda Adventure, with driver Trace Tetrick in the bike, turned in a dominant performance to find the winner’s circle in the featured event of the evening, the lone $94,500 division of Indiana Sires Stakes (INSS) for three-year-old trotting colts and geldings, at Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Wednesday (June 29).

After a few days of rain, Harrah’s Hoosier Park’s track surface was ready to go on Saturday, May 28 as the evening’s 14-race card was highlighted by the first track record performance of the season in the featured event.

After a two month absence, Its A Herbie returned to the Miami Valley winner’s circle following Tuesday (April 6) afternoon’s $20,000 Open Trot. Using the winner’s customary come-from-behind tactic, driver LeWayne Miller rallied him from sixth, and last, at the half—and fourth at the top of the stretch—to edge Lane Of Stone in 1:52.4. The clocking marked lifetime best for the five-year-old son Here Comes Herbie. Shake It Mary earned the show dough in the compact field. Verlin Yoder own...

LeWayne Miller is a fan of the three-leg Howard Beissinger Memorial Medley Trot at Miami Valley Raceway, and has a “compelling” reason to look forward to Friday’s (Feb. 19) $25,000 final. Miller will be driving the morning-line favourite, Compelling. Compelling and Miller will start from post 5 in the final, which will be contested at the added distance of one-and-a-quarter miles. Compelling won a first-leg division of the medley, raced at five-eighths of a mile, and finished second in a ...

Its A Herbie overcame an uncovered overland journey to win Miami Valley’s $22,500 Open Trot on Tuesday (Feb. 9) for the second straight week. Trainer-driver LeWayne Miller has the five-year-old son of Here Comes Herbie in fine form for owner Verlin Yoder, who lives and trains the rest of his stable in Florida in the winter months. Miller settled Its A Herbie along the pylons into fourth briefly as the 10-horse field hit the quarter in :28.4. It wasn’t long thereafter, however, that the winn...

The Friday night feature at Miami Valley was the $22,500 Mares Open Pace, won by Pace Baby Pace and driver Chris Page for the second straight week, but the most anticipated races were a pair of divisions going 5/8ths of a mile dashes in the first leg of the Howard Beissinger Memorial Medley. The second leg of the annual Beissinger Memorial will go a standard mile, then the third and final $25,000 championship leg will go 1-1/4 miles on Friday, Feb. 22. Nominated horses could not have raced ...

The betting public got it right on Tuesday (Feb. 2) at Miami Valley, sending Its A Herbie off as the 4-5 odds on favourite in the $22,000 Open Trot. The five-year-old son of Here Comes Herbie responded with a relatively easy 1:55.1 victory for driver-trainer LeWayne Miller, besting Workinitonbroadway and longshot Milfords Z Tam. It was the 15th victory for Its A Herbie, boosting his lifetime bounty to $465,242 for owner Verlin Yoder. The Tuesday matinee also featured round-one action in the Su...

Dee Leftwich Photo Harness racing, at its very core, is a career that follows a routine pattern, but at the same time, follows no routine at all. In other words, the everyday routine of each stable is set through a similar schedule – morning feed, stalls, buckets, watering, jogging or training, bathing, lunch, and dinner. Now these schedules vary from stable to stable. Everything from how far a horse is jogged to how much they are fed to how many buckets of water each horse has can be differe...