Harrah's Hoosier Park: Ponda Adventure rules in Indiana Sires Stakes

Ponda Adventure, with driver Trace Tetrick in the bike, turned in a dominant performance to find the winner's circle in the featured event of the evening, the lone $94,500 division of Indiana Sires Stakes for 3-year-old trotting colts and geldings, at Harrah's Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Wednesday, June 29. Scoring in 1:52 4/5, Ponda Adventure established a new lifetime-best clocking and remained undefeated in three starts this season.

Leaving from post two in the field of nine, Ponda Adventure left just enough to grab the pocket seat while Sam Widger had Bluebird Biship on a mission to the front. Bluebird Bishop led the field through early splits of 26 1/5 and 55 while the rest of the field sorted out early position. Ponda Adventure was content with a pocket trip, while Sweet Boy Ben and Peter Wrenn were the first to commit to the outer flow and apply pressure to the leaders.

Bluebird Bishop was still on top through the three-quarters in 1:24 3/5, but the rest of the field was closing in on the leader. Tetrick saw daylight up the passing lane, and Ponda Adventure powered up the inside with a 27 4/5 closing kick to get the win by 2 3/4 lengths. Yo Mister and Verlin Yoder also rallied well late for second, while Adamsville Road and Mike Oosting rounded out the trifecta. As the heavy 1-5 favorite, Ponda Adventure returned $2.60 for the win.

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Trained by Erv Miller, the son of Swan For All-Wildflower has now won 11 of 13 lifetime starts while bankrolling $367,968 for owners Engel Stb of Ill LLC., L.A. Willinger, and J.D. Graham. Ponda Adventure was bred by Pond-A-Acres. The victory was also one of two winners on the evening's program for Tetrick, Harrahs Hoosier Park's leading driver.

--press release (Harrah's Hoosier Park)--