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Harrah's Hoosier Park Racing & Casino is a racino including a standardbred racetrack located in Anderson, Indiana, approximately 30 miles northeast of Indianapolis. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. The facility features live harness racing from April through November, casino gaming, restaurants, a gift shop, and entertainment.
Logo of Indiana Grand Racing & Casino prior to its rebranding in January 2022. The racetrack was previously known as Indiana Downs. [2] The casino opened on March 13, 2009 as Indiana Live! Casino. It was renamed Indiana Grand Casino in June 2012, and rebranded as Indiana Grand Racing & Casino in February 2013.
This is a list of currently active horse racing venues, both Thoroughbred racing and harness racing, sorted by country. In most English-speaking countries they are called "racecourses". In most English-speaking countries they are called "racecourses".
The Grand Circuit, also known as the "Big Wheel", [1] is a group of harness racing stakes races run at various race tracks around the United States. [2] Run on one-mile tracks, [ 3 ] it is "the oldest continuing horse-racing series in the United States."
In 1991, Churchill Downs bought the struggling Louisville Downs harness track, which was closed and converted to a satellite wagering and training facility. In 1994, Churchill Downs began to expand its holdings, with plans to partner with a new racetrack in Indiana. The plan resulted in the purchase of Hoosier Park from businessman Louis Carlo.
The Breeders 2YO Colt & Gelding Trot is a harness racing event for two-year-old Standardbred male trotters. It is one part of the Breeders Crown annual series of twelve races for both Standardbred trotters and pacers. First run in 1985, it is contested over a distance of one mile.
Always B Miki won in his racing debut on July 12, 2013, at the Meadowlands in a $12,500 pace for 2-year-old colts and geldings. [4] He then raced mainly at Hoosier Park where he won an elimination for the Indiana Sire Stakes and finished third in two finals. [7] He ended the year with two wins, four seconds and three thirds from twelve starts. [8]
The Breeders Crown is an annual series of harness races in the United States and Canada covering each of the sport's twelve traditional categories of age, gait and gender. The series was initiated by the Hambletonian Society, promoters of the Hambletonian Stakes, in 1984 to enhance the Standardbred breeding industry and to promote the sport of harness racing by providing a lucrative high ...