Oct. 17, Cranbury, NJ...The Breeders Crown events at Hoosier Park
Racing & Casino attracted 166 entries for the $6 million championship
finals on Friday, Oct. 27, and Saturday, Oct. 28.
Eliminations
will be needed in every division with the exception of the $250,000 Mare Trot,
which drew just five mares as defending Breeders Crown champion Hannelore
Hanover opted in against the males in the $526,250 Open Trot.
The $250,000 Mare Trot with five entered will go straight to the
final on Friday, Oct. 27. They are in alphabetical order: Caprice Hill,
Emoticon Hanover, Flowers N Songs, Pasithea Face S and Pink Pistol.
An even split of the Breeders Crown events along gender lines
means that eight distaff eliminations will take place Friday, Oct. 20, and 14
eliminations for the males on Saturday, Oct. 21.
Eliminations split at 12 entries. Because there are no trailers
allowed in eliminations, if 11 horses enter, two receive byes and there will be
a single elimination to “qualify” the remaining eight horses for the final.
Hoosier Park scores nine across the starting gate and will have a
trailer as the 10 horse in all finals.
Elimination
winners, in an order determined by lot, will draw for post positions number one
(#1) through five (#5) in the final. All other finalists, including bye horses,
will be placed in an open draw for the remaining post positions.
Elimination fields with bye horses will be announced when
finalized.
All 2-year-old finals will go for $600,000, which is the richest
purse offered for that age group in the U.S.
Post
time is 6:30 p.m. [EDT] for Breeders Crown elimination nights, and 6:00 p.m.
[EDT] for the finals.
There
is a 24-hour retention barn for all eliminations and finals.
Hoosier
Park, a seven-eighths mile track that opened in Anderson, Ind., in 1994 and is
now owned by Centaur Gaming, is the 31st racetrack to host the $6 million
Breeders Crown, and the first new host track since The Downs at Mohegan Sun
Pocono in 2010.
