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Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino played host to a stakes filled card on Friday, May 21 and with it officially kicked off the 2021 Indiana Sires Stakes season.
The Hoosier State’s top sophomore trotters and pacers were on display and served notice that the 2021 stakes season would deliver plenty of excitement. The 2021 Indiana Sires Stakes program will feature eight legs throughout the season and culminate with the $250,000 Super Finals on October 15.
It was a big night on the track for trainer Erv Miller who scored three stakes victories on the evening’s 13-race card. The most notable score of the evening for Team Miller was produced by the rookie three-year-old trotting colt Mallard Hanover who turned in a 1:52.4 effort to romp in the opening division of the Indiana Sires Stakes for three-year-old trotting colts and geldings.
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A pandemic within a pandemic. That’s what experts are calling it.
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When he was in seventh grade, Charlie Porter’s hands shook just before he was to perform his first improvised trumpet solo. Beads of sweat rolled down his neck, and his thoughts filled with doubt.
It was an outdoor lunch concert in public. Randy Sonntag, founding dean at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, sensed Porter’s anxiety and said, “Look, it’s easy.” Sonntag proceeded to play badly on purpose to show Porter that it was OK to play and not worry about sounding “correct” or “right.”
“Once I saw him do that, I knew I could do it, and I have been trying ever since,” Porter said.