1. Hoosier Park Racing & Casino
2. Harrah's Hoosier Park Racing & Casino Anderson Indiana Casino

Harrah's Hoosier Park Racing & Casino is a racino including a standardbred racetrack located in Anderson, Indiana, approximately 30 miles northeast of Indianapolis. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. The facility features live harness racing from April through November, casino gaming, restaurants, a gift shop, and entertainment.

• Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino reopened its casino doors this week, and there was already a line of people outside waiting to enter by 11 a.m.
• Harrah's Hoosier Park Racing & Casino. Harrah's Hoosier Park is a premier gaming, racing, dining and entertainment destination. All just minutes north of Indianapolis. Open 24/7, year-round.

The $300,000 Dan Patch Stakes was established at Hoosier Park in 1994 and has become a tradition that highlights some of the best athletes in the sport of harness racing. The 2017 Breeders Crown, harness racing's annual series of 12 championship events valued at $6 million, was contested at Hoosier Park on October 27 & 28.^[1]

About Harrah's Hoosier Park Racing & Casino. Harrah's Hoosier Park Racing & Casino is located at 4500 Dan Patch Circle Anderson, IN 46013. They can be contacted via phone at (800) 526-7223 for pricing, directions, reservations and more. Harrah's a very well kept casino, They keep it very clean there is plenty of different food attractions good for any appetite you may have. There is plenty of staff who are ready and willing to help. Harrah's Hoosier Park's newly renovated facility is worth the drive.

Hoosier Park offers off-track betting (OTB) at three locations in Indiana: Clarksville, Indianapolis, and New Haven. Hoosier Park also offers simulcast wagering year-round.

Hoosier Park has hosted musicians such as The Beach Boys, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Billy Currington.

History[edit]

In 1990, Virgil E. Cook, a prominent local businessman and longtime resident of Anderson, Indiana, donated 110 acres (0.45 km²) of commercial real estate to the city for the sole purpose of developing a pari-mutuel racing facility. In 1992, Churchill Downs Incorporated announced plans to purchase Indiana's only pari-mutuel license from The Anderson Park Group headed by Louis Carlo and open a racetrack on the site of the land donated by Cook. It was the first racetrack outside Kentucky owned by Churchill Downs since 1939. In February 1994 a contract was signed for the construction of Hoosier Park. The construction of the facility cost approximately $13 million. On September 1, 1994, the track finally opened. A crowd of 7,633 came to the grand opening of the standardbred season. The track announces plans to open four off-track betting facilities in Indiana. On October 7, 1995, the first Indiana Derby was run.

Churchill Downs sold Hoosier Park in April 2007 for $8.2 million to Centaur Group.

Legislation was passed shortly after April 2007 to permit slot machines at both tracks, converting them to racinos. Both tracks were legislated to get a 55 percent share of the estimated $325 million the 2,000 slots at each of the state's two tracks were expected to generate annually. This would also increase the purse sizes of the races.

Hoosier Park Casino opened to the public on June 2, 2008.^[2]

In 2001, Indiana Downs became the second horse racing track in the state. Initially located in Fairland, Indiana; it was later annexed into nearby Shelbyville, Indiana.

The Indiana Derby was once held at Hoosier Park but is now held at Indiana Grand Racing & Casino.

In 2018, Caesars Entertainment bought Hoosier Park from Centaur Holdings, along with Indiana Grand.^[3] The company stated that it might rebrand the property as Harrah's Hoosier Park.^[4]

Physical attributes[edit]

The track is a seven-eighths of a mile dirt oval. There is no turf course.

Racing[edit]

Stakes races at Hoosier Park include:

• The Dan Patch Stakes
• The Nadia Lobell
• Kentuckiana Stallion Management
• Centaur Trotting Classic
• The Hoosier Park Pacing Derby
• The Elevation
• The Jenna's Beachboy
• The Moni Maker
• The Circle City
• The Madison County
• The Pegasus
• The Monument Circle
• The Carl Erskine
• The USS Indianapolis Mem.
• The Crossroads of America

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^AP 5:10 p.m. EDT October 29, 2014 (2014-10-29). 'Breeders Crown sites announced through 2017'. Usatoday.com. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
2. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-09-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. ^'Caesars' purchase of two Indiana racinos finalized'. The Times of Northwest Indiana. July 17, 2018. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
4. ^Lindsey Erdody (July 6, 2018). 'Caesars steps into unfamiliar role in Indiana: horse track operator'. Indianapolis Business Journal. Retrieved 2018-07-17.

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Anderson, IN – Post positions were drawn for the remaining fields to complete the line-up for the Breeders Crown Finals on Monday, (Oct. 26) at a Post Draw Reception at Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino. The fields for the Open Pace, Open Trot, Three-Year-Old Colt Trot and Three-Year-Old Colt Pace were established. Elimination winners drew from posts one through five with the remainder of the field in an open draw. The Open Pace and Open Trot did not require eliminations and advanced directly to the finals set for Saturday (Oct. 31).

Following are the fields in post position order for the Breeders Crown Finals:

Hoosier Park Racing & Casino

$500,000 Breeders Crown Open Pace
PP-Horse-Trainer
1-Sectionline Bigry—Steve Bauder
2-Filibuster Hanover—Ron Burke
3-Western Joe—Christopher Choate
4-Dorsoduro Hanover—Ron Burke
5-Sintra—Tyler George
6-Backstreet Shadow—Ron Burke
7-Century Farroh—Dr. Ian Moore
8-Dancin Lou—Tahnee Camilleri
9-Bettor’s Wish—Chris Ryder
10-This Is The Plan—Ron Burke

Harrah's Hoosier Park Racing & Casino Anderson Indiana Casino

$500,000 Breeders Crown Three-Year-Old Colt Trot
PP-Horse-Trainer
1-Capricornus—Marcus Melander
2-Amigo Volo—R. Nifty Norman
3-Ready For Moni—Nancy Takter
4-Play Trix On Me—Linda Toscano
5-Hill Exotic—Trond Smedshammer
6-Maesteraemon—Marcus Melander
7-Back Of The Neck—Ake Svandstedt
8-Beads—Per Engblom
9-Chestnut Hill—R. Nifty Norman
10-Gangster Hanover—Ake Svandstedt

$500,000 Breeders Crown Three-Year-Old Colt Pace
PP-Horse-Trainer
1-Tall Dark Stranger—Nancy Takter
2-Manticore—Bruce Saunders
3-Cattlewash—Ron Burke
4-Warrawee Vital—Robert Fellows
5-Save Me A Dance—Andrew Harris
6-No Lou Zing—Nancy Takter
7-Captain Barbossa—Tony Alagna
8-Sandbetweenmytoes—Jim Campbell
9-The Greek Freak—Ron Burke
10-Elver Hanover—Ron Burke

$500,000 Breeders Crown Open Trot
PP-Horse-Trainer
1-Mission Accepted—Ron Burke
2-Majestic Player A—Walter Haynes Jr.
3-Gimpanzee—Marcus Melander
4-Reign Of Honor—Marcus Melander
5-Atlanta—Ron Burke
6-Lindy The Great—Julie Miller
7-Soul Strong—Ake Svandstedt
8-Katkin American—James Yoder
9-Crystal Fashion—Jim Campbell
10-Fiftydallarbill—Luis Quevedo

Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino will host the 2020 Breeders Crown Finals on Friday (Oct. 30) and Saturday, with limited spectators, in accordance with the approved health and safety plan for the event.

The four $600,000 two-year-old Breeders Crown finals will be held on Friday with the three-year-old and open events featured on Saturday. Each evening will feature a first post of 6:00 p.m.

Harrah’s Hoosier Park will provide a free live high-definition streaming of the entire Breeders Crown events and live racing cards on YouTube. The live stream broadcast will be part of a week-long coverage leading up to the Breeders Crown finals. Harrah’s Hoosier Park’s social media feeds will also stream the Breeders Crown event week festivities.

The 2020 Breeders Crown event, presented by The Libfeld-Katz Breeding Partnership, will be the 37th edition of the $6 million event. For more information on the Breeders Crown or upcoming events at Harrah’s Hoosier Park, please visit www.harrahshoosierpark.com.