The qualifiers at Southern Oaks Training Center on Friday, April 12 hosted numerous prolific names in harness racing with the entries headlined by 2023 Trainer of the Year Dr. Ian Moore.
"It has its ups and downs for sure. All of us as breeders, we'll come out of [the sales] feeling good some days and other days, we're like, wow, it's just like were hitting ourselves with a hammer. We've had a lot of OBrien Awards, but we never ever got an O'Brien Award for breeder."
In harness racing, success does not come overnight, particularly in the breeding business where the outcome of building relationships and the day-to-day hard work that goes into raising future racehorses isn’t realized for many years.
The second night of Breeders Crown eliminations took place on Friday, Oct. 20 at Harrah's Hoosier Park with the finalists determined for the two-year-old pacing divisions and three-year-old filly divisions.