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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 owns Its A Herbie, who now has 17 victories and eclipsed the half-million earnings plateau with the win...
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 second-round split, which was raced at the standard distance of one mile. Perfect Chapter As is the ...
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 winner began his first-up pursuit of the leader Muscle Fashion. Up to third at the pedestrian :58 half, ...