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.
Supplemental entries for three-year-old and open events are due and payable by 12 noon (EDT) on Monday, Oct. 16 in the race office of Harrah’s Hoosier Park or at the Hambletonian Society offices in Cranbury, New Jersey. There are no supplements for two-year-old races.
Click here for more instructions on supplementing.
Supplemental declaration amounts are listed below:
Guaranteed Purse - Breeders Crown Event - Supplement (12 per cent of advertised purse)
$600,000 - Three-Year-Old Events - $72,000
$600,000 - Open Trot & Pace - $72,000
$400,000 - Open Mare Pace & Trot - $48,000
The entrance fee is included in the supplemental amount. The percentage of the supplement added to the purse is determined by The Hambletonian Society.
This one-time supplemental payment also makes a horse eligible to all subsequent years’ Breeders Crown events under the normal schedule of payments.
The Hoosier Park starting gate scores nine horses across with the 10-post horse a trailer. There is a passing lane at Hoosier Park.
Eligible two-year-old trotters also enter on Monday, Oct. 16 by 10 a.m. for eliminations if needed on Thursday, Oct. 19. “Win and You’re In” trotters are not eligible to race in eliminations but advance directly to the final.
Eligible two-year-old pacers and all three-year-old fillies enter on Tuesday, Oct. 17 by 1:30 p.m. for scheduled eliminations of Friday, Oct. 20.
Eligible three-year-old colts and open events enter on Wednesday, Oct. 18 by 1:30 p.m. for elimination, if needed, on Saturday, Oct. 21. Eligible three-year-olds have the option of entering the sophomore event to which they were nominated or an Open event.
The Harrah’s Hoosier Park condition sheet can be accessed on the USTA website here.
All eliminations will race for a minimum of $25,000.
If there are eliminations, post positions in the final will be determined by an open draw with the exception that elimination winners in an order determined by lot, will draw for post positions number one through five in the final. All other finalists will be placed in an open draw for the remaining post positions. Any horse(s) that receive(s) a bye into the final will be in the open draw for post positions in the final. The two "Win and You’re In" horses for the freshman trot divisions skip the eliminations and draw for posts one through five. The winner receives 50 per cent of the purse but all horses that start in the final receive money.
All two-year-old races will be held on Friday, Oct. 28 with an early post time of 6 p.m. (EDT).
All three-year-old and Open events will race on Saturday, Oct. 29, also with an early post of 6 p.m. (EDT).
For more information and racing conditions click here or call 609-371-2211.
(Breeders Crown)