Hall of Fame trainer Joe Holloway will be sending out a pair of 2-year-old pacers in separate events on Friday's mega stakes-packed card at Harrah's Hoosier Park. It's somewhat fitting that one of the rich events on the program is named for one of Holloway's greats Jenna's Beach Boy. For Holloway, the timing seems apt considering his undefeated juvenile pacing colt named Newsroom, the likely favorite in the $110,000 The Elevation, could be headed towards the same lofty heights. "I think he has a chance to be very special," said Holloway. "Perhaps become the best horse I've ever trained." Though Newsroom has only had five starts and will be making his first trip outside of New Jersey for Friday's contest, Holloway believes he's already seen enough of the character of this son of Always B Miki to trust in his future. "I thought he was a bit different training down but wanted to see what David [Miller] thought to find out if it was just me," said Holloway. "When David drove him, he agreed." Miller has sat behind Newsroom in all five wins, with the colt's last score a 1:49 4/5 effort, a convincing tally on September 8 in the $150,000 New Jersey Classic. "He's lazy colt," said Holloway. "The week before in the elimination he was going pretty slow on the front and a horse came at him pretty quickly in the stretch." Newsroom was shaken up a bit by Miller in that race and fought bravely to win his elimination by just a neck. A week later in the final Miller let the colt know he meant business, and Newsroom won by close to six lengths over a good field. Originally the trip to Hoosier Park for Friday's contest was not on Holloway's radar, but a break in the scheduling led to the decision to send him to The Elevation. "If we didn't ship out for the race it would have been three weeks and I probably would have had to qualify him again," said Holloway, who clearly would like to use the Hoosier Park stake as a stepping stone to the major fall races. "After this we'll go to Lexington for a couple of weeks and then on to the Breeders Crown," said Holloway. "If all goes well, we'll decide later about the Governor's Cup or not." On Friday Newsroom landed post two in the fifth race on the program and will face a field largely comprised of Indiana-sired horses, including three from the Ron Burke stable. Noblesville (post one) and Martz Telly (post three) have been solid in Indiana Sires Stakes this season, with the latter entering Friday's contest with six wins in his seven career starts. Burke's third entrant is Lou Vuitton (post four). ► Sign up for our FREE DRF Harness Digest Newsletter It's taken some time for Holloway to get to see Blue Pacific on the racetrack, but the Sweet Lou-sired lass has certainly been worth the wait. "She got sore with bucked shins. It's a bit of a Thoroughbred injury, but it took her a long time to get sound," said Holloway. After debuting with some solid qualifiers in June at Gaitway Farms, Blue Pacific returned to action at the Meadowlands in September and was an impressive 1:50 3/5 maiden-breaking winner in the $150,000 New Jersey Classic for freshmen pacing fillies on September 8 over the East Rutherford mile oval. Blue Pacific will get tested on a grander scale in the $200,000 Kentuckiana Stallion Management (race nine), with a field of 10 juvenile fillies going postward. Blue Pacific landed the pole position with Miller again in the bike and will meet a solid group that's been racing in Sire Stakes competition throughout the land. Lyons Legend (post six) was undefeated until facing Geocentric (the Pennsylvania and Kentucky champion) on September 2 at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. A daughter of Stay Hungry, Lyons Legend has won six of her seven career starts and sports a 1:50 2/5 career-best taken at Harrah's Philadelphia. Ron Burke has four in the field, including New York Sire Stakes and Pennsylvania Sire Stakes finalists Lou Lou (post two), Camerican (post four) and Canigetalouploup (post five). The $210,000 Caesars Trotting Classic and the $175,000 Hoosier Park Pacing Derby are the featured events on the Hoosier Park Friday program and will bolster the latter part of the 15-race card. The Caesars goes as race 13, and trainer Marcus Melander is hopeful that Venerate will be able to recapture some of his old glory on the anniversary of his triumph in the 2020 Mohawk Million. "I'm happy with the way he's coming into the race," said Melander. "He drew post 10 for the International [September 9] and things just didn't work out there. I really don't know why he made the break in the Maple Leaf but he's fine now." Venerate (post four) has a first- and two second-place finishes in his other three starts this year, and the son of Love You found an inside draw against nemesis It's Academic (post seven) in the Trotting Classic. A winner in 1:50 1/5 in the Cutler Memorial earlier this year at the Meadowlands, Venerate was second behind It's Academic in both the Crawford Farms and Cashman at the Meadowlands. It's Academic has won seven of his 12 starts this year for trainer Ron Burke and looks for another major stakes victory on Friday. It's Academic had to settle for a fourth-place finish trying to come from off-the-pace in the International Trot but unable to sustain his bid through a solid final half put up by race-winner Vivid Wise As. Trainer Brett Pelling is hopeful that Friday will afford Allywag Hanover a chance to shine in the $175,000 Hoosier Park Pacing Derby. Second to Bythemissal in the Aria Pace at Yonkers on International Day, Allywag Hanover drew post four with his rival landing post nine in Friday's 12th race at Hoosier Park. "He kept getting backed into last time," said Pelling of the dawdling fractions set by Bythemissal in the one and one-quarter mile Aria Pace. In the Canadian Pacing Derby final Allywag Hanover tracked Bythemissal in the pocket and then struggled to find room throughout the stretch in a race captured late by Tattoo Artist. A field of 10 comprise the Hoosier Park Pacing Derby, with Dan Patch champion Ponda Warrior (post one) getting the opportunity to take on two major players that did not participate in that $310,000 contest on August 11 over this surface. Post time for the Hoosier card on Friday, which features a $20,000 guaranteed Pick 4 in race 12 and a $25,000 Superfecta in the Caesars Trotting Classic among other guarantees, is 6:15 P.M. (EDT).