Anderson, IN — Harrah’s Hoosier Park is poised to kick off the first of eight rounds of Indiana Sire Stakes for all four sophomore divisions on a special Memorial Day card Monday, May 25. The 15-race program will begin with a first post of 5:30 p.m., featuring seven splits of Indiana Sire Stakes, with the remainder of the card including $16,000 ISS Eligible events.
The Memorial Day card also includes a pair of $10,000 guaranteed pools, with those guarantees offered on both the Late Pick 4 (races 12-15) and Late High 5 (race 15) in partnership with the USTA’s Strategic Wagering Program.
The finale will serve as the main event on the Monday card, with World Champion Odds On Mr Mamba slated to make his 3-year-old debut with Dexter Dunn in the lone $96,000 division for pacing colts. The fastest 2-year-old in the sport’s history with his 1:47.4 clocking at Hoosier Park on Oct. 2, 2025, the Melanie Wrenn trainee has prepped for his debut with a trio of qualifiers at Hoosier including a 1:53.2 (:26 last quarter) clocking with Pete Wrenn driving in his last. The gelded son of Odds On Equuleus only tasted defeat in his career debut at age two, winning his remaining seven starts including the $93,750 Elevation and $250,000 ISS Super Final to bank $314,405 for owner and breeder Odds On Racing. Odds On Mr Mamba will leave from post 2 in the event, which includes rivals Dancingdreamer (Post 8, driven by Aaron Stutzman) and Swiss Lights (Post 9, Trace Tetrick).
On the other end of the program, 3-year-old pacing fillies will kick off the card with the first of two $48,500 splits in the first. The Erv Miller-trained Somemore Blue (Post 2, Marcus Miller) headlines the sextet after she cruised by eight lengths against ISS Eligible company in her sophomore debut with a 1:51.2 career-best effort. The daughter of Rockin Image-Missomebeach Blue won her first seven starts at age two, eventually finishing second in the $250,000 Super Final to arch-rival Whoomp while banking $279,566 last season. Somemore Blue will hook up with Go On BB series champion Klorox Queen (Post 5, Trace Tetrick) and Rock The Charm (Post 6, John De Long) in the lid-lifter.
The aforementioned Whoomp makes her 3-year-old debut in race 11 in the second division. John De Long will pilot the Roger Welch trainee, who was named Indiana’s Pacer of the Year in 2025. The De Long homebred daughter of Rockin Image won eight of 13 at two, ending her season with four straight victories including the $201,000 Kentuckiana Stallion Management and $250,000 ISS Super Final en route to banking $349,601.
Roger Welch will also send out For Dayze in the first of two $48,500 divisions for 3-year-old trotting fillies in Race 8. Last year’s Super Final champion narrowly missed in her sophomore debut by a neck against ISS Eligible company to Honeymoon, who will leave from post 2 with Trace Tetrick. For Dayze won six of 10 at age two, having been involved in the exacta in nine of 10 in a two-year-old season that saw her bank $264,800.
The second division for trotting fillies features Fresh Face Yankee, who is undefeated in three starts this year for trainer/driver Jay Cross. The daughter of Crescent Fashion-Swan Yankee was a phenom on the fair circuit at two, setting track records at both Frankfort and the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Fresh Face Yankee enters sire stakes after a clean sweep of the Msnaughtybynature series, and will meet last year’s Super Final runner-up Help Cum Laude (Post 4, Atlee Bender).
The 3-year-old trotting colts have two divisions of nine set to go in races 10 and 13. The first split shark tank features last year’s Super Final runner-up, Dan D Man Can (Post 3, Atlee Bender), August Salazar (Post 4, John De Long) who has won four of five this season, and last year’s Super Final champion, Premier Bluebird (Post 5, Kyle Wilfong), who makes the second start of his sophomore campaign after finishing fourth in an Oak Grove Trotting Derby elimination.
Free online programs are made available nightly on the Hoosier Park website by clicking on the racing tab. The Hoosier Park website additionally offers free access to race replays, while qualifier replays are made available on the Hoosier Park AV YouTube channel.
For more information on the 2026 live racing season at Harrah’s Hoosier Park, guests are encouraged to visit www.harrahshoosierpark.com.