by Tammy Knox, director of race marketing affairs, Hoosier Park

Anderson, IN — Indiana’s finest trotters and pacers will be in the spotlight Saturday, July 10 for Hoosier Champions Night, bringing purse totals to more than $1.1 million. A total of 14 races have been established featuring six Indiana Sires Stakes finals. The first race will go behind the Todd Nixon starting gate at 5:30 p.m.

Leading driver Peter Wrenn will send two Indiana standouts into the finals Saturday as Earl’s Glider and Msnaughtybynature lead the way in the 3-year-old trotting ranks. Both undefeated in four starts this season, Msnaughtybynature will lead the charge in the 10-horse lineup for race six. Drawing post position four, the daughter of Scramble Ranger was Indiana’s 2-Year-Old Trotting Filly Champion last season. She was the overwhelming leader in the point standings for Wrenn and his wife, Melanie, who owns part of the filly with The Kales Company. Msnaughtybynature now has 13 wins in 16 career starts and earnings in excess of $300,000.

Earl’s Glider, a sophomore son of Earl of Stormont, will lead a field of 10 to post in the eighth race from post one. A purchase at the end of the season last year by the Wrenn family for part-owners Dan and Tom Courtemanche, Earls Glider took a new lifetime mark earlier this season in 1:57. He now possesses more than $134,000 in career earnings.

Iron Claw, Indiana’s 2-Year-Old Pacing Champion from last season, will be one of the favorites in the Indiana Sires Stakes final for three-year-old pacing colts. Slated as the seventh race, the son of Speak will start from post five. He is now five for 10 in 2010 for driver-trainer Charlie Conrad. Roselea and Don Conrad, who bred Iron Claw, are the owners along with Charlie’s wife, Sarah.

All 3-year-old Indiana Sires Stakes events will go for purses of $200,000, the most in the history of the event. The older horses will race for $100,000 in both the horse and gelding trot and the mares pace. Also, four $30,000 consolation divisions of the 3-year-old events will be contested.

For more information on Hoosier Champions, log onto www.hoosierpark.com.