Harness Racing This Week: Breeders Crown eliminations and Circle City, Harrah’s Hoosier Park, Anderson, Ind.; Kindergarten Series leg, The Meadowlands, East Rutherford, N.J.; and John Simpson Stakes, Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Schedule of events: Thursday will see three $25,000 eliminations for 2-year-old filly trotters and two $25,000 eliminations for 2-year-old male trotters;
The final harness racing entries closed at 1:30 pm today (Oct. 18) for the $7M Breeders Crown weekend on Oct. 27 and 28 at Harrah's Hoosier Park with a total of 89 horses entered. Eliminations will be needed in all divisions, including one for the Breeders Crown Trot with 11 entrants. The Mare Trot drew
Confederate, ranked No. 1 in the sport’s Top 10, and returning champions Ammo, Jiggy Jog S, Grace Hill, Treacherous Dragon and Gaines Hanover will be among the horses in action on Saturday, Oct. 21 when Harrah’s Hoosier Park hosts the last of three nights of Breeders Crown eliminations.
The entry box for potential supplements to the three-year-old and older Breeders Crown races and for all eligible horses to declare in to the $7 million year-end championship events at Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino closes next week.
LEXINGTON, Ky. Having secured the second jewel of Trotting’s Triple Crown, Tactical Approach (Tactical Landing) will look to add another onto his resume when he starts as the 3-1 morning line harness racing favorite in the $450,000 131st Kentucky Futurity, which wraps the 15-race card and the Grand Circuit meet on Sunday (Oct. 8). Tactical Approach