Odds On Mr Mamba is ready to roll.
Trainer Melanie Wrenn on Tuesday, July 14 told the United States Trotting Association that North America Cup winner Odds On Mr Mamba has been supplemented to the Grade 1 Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids, presented by 1/ST BET. Adios eliminations are slated for Saturday, July 18 at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.
The entry box for the Adios, an open event for three-year-old pacers, closes at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, July 15. The fee to supplement is $35,000 USD and will be added to the $350,000 USD final. The Adios final will be contested on July 25.
Odds On Mr Mamba, a homebred for Dana Parham’s Odds On Racing, was a perfect three-for-three this season after winning the Grade 1 North America Cup in 1:48.1 on June 13 at Woodbine Mohawk Park. He returned to action on June 26 at his home track, Harrah’s Hoosier Park, for the third leg of the Indiana Sire Stakes, where he finished third.
Following that performance, his connections decided to skip the Grade 1 Meadowlands Pace (July 4 elims, July 11 final) to give Odds On Mr Mamba time to refresh.
This past Saturday, with the addition of Lasix, the record-setting gelding qualified in 1:51.1 with Peter Wrenn in the sulky at Hoosier Park. He paced the back half in :54, with a :25.4 last quarter.
“He’s not a big dude, and I think he was just a little bit weary from his travels, so we decided not to go to the Pace,” said Melanie Wrenn. “We feel like we’ve got him back ready to go again. He’s digging into his feed tub and everything about him is like it was before.
“He qualified fantastic the other day, much more like himself. He bled a little bit [in his previous start], so we put him on Lasix. Peter turned him loose in the lane [on Saturday] and he was a little surprised when he saw the time. He said it just doesn’t feel like he’s going that fast!”
Odds On Mr Mamba, a son of Odds On Equuleus-Honky Tonk Woman, has won 10 of 12 career races and earned $1,044,275. His wins in 2025 included the Indiana Sire Stakes championship and Grade 3 Elevation, both at Hoosier Park, and his 1:47.4 victory in the last preliminary leg of the Sire Stakes made him the fastest two-year-old pacer in history.
“He loves to race,” said Wrenn. “He’s just such an easy keeper. He’s one of those horses that’s in the barn but you don’t really know he’s there. He doesn’t make a lot of noise; he just goes out there and does his job. When he gets to the gate, that’s when he’s all business. Just looking at him, you would have no idea that he’s as fast as he is. But he is.”
The Adios has attracted another intriguing entry with the connections of star filly Loua Dipa targeting an historic victory in the 60th edition of the race.
Trainer Ron Burke told The Observer-Reporter and confirmed to Trot Insider on Tuesday afternoon that the filly will face the boys in the Adios at his home track.
“She’s very capable of winning it,” said Burke of last year's Dan Patch divisional award winner who is currently riding a four-race stakes win streak. “We’re not going there just to say we raced. We’re going there to win.
“It’s a legacy-maker. We’re giving her a chance to seal her legacy as, I think, one of the best three-year-old filly pacers of all time.”
The homebred Sweet Lou-Looksgoodinaromper filly has won 13 of her 18 career starts and more than $1.5 million for Burke Racing Stable of Fredericktown, Pennsylvania and Weaver Bruscemi of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. She heads to the Adios fresh off a lifetime-best equalling 1:48 victory in last Saturday's Grade 3 Jerry Silverman Memorial Stakes, setting a stakes and track record at The Meadowlands. Earlier this season, she won the Grade 1 Fan Hanover Stakes at Woodbine Mohawk Park in a stakes, track and Canadian record of 1:48.1. She first won in 1:48 flat last year at The Red Mile to become the fastest two-year-old pacing filly in the sport.
Burke indicated that Ronnie Wrenn Jr. is "her driver forever" and the stable will also be entering Al Papi, Melillo, Frantic Hanover and Another C Note in the Adios.
(With files from USTA and The Observer-Reporter)