Streaks on the line during Hoosier Champions Night
At 1h15, on October 10, 2025 • By Jacob Rheinheimer, Hoosier Park
The stage is set for Indiana’s richest night of racing, Hoosier Champions night at Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Friday, Oct. 10.
Twelve new Indiana Sire Stakes champions will be crowned on a 15-race program with just shy of $2.4 million up for grabs and a trio of lengthy win streaks on the line.
With a first post of 5:30 p.m., the first of eight consecutive $250,000 ISS Super Finals for two- and three-year-olds will be the glamour boy division in race five where the undefeated Rock Shines Again looks to stay perfect during his three-year-old campaign. Owned by Richard Redder and T G Stable, Rock Shines Again has reeled off 12 straight entering Friday night, including wins in the last five legs of Indiana Sire Stakes and $84,750 Hoosier Cup Final for trainer Tyler George. Leading driver Trace Tetrick gets the call from post five for the 7-5 morning line favorite.
Meanwhile the fastest two-year-old in harness racing history, Odds On Mr Mamba, will look to conclude his two-year-old campaign on top of the two-year-old colt and gelding pace Super Final in the tenth race. Fresh off his World Record 1:47.4 score in the last leg of Indiana Sire Stakes on Oct. 2, the gelded son of Odds On Equuleus-Honky Tonk Woman will once again have pilot Dexter Dunn aboard for trainer Melanie Wrenn. The Odds On Racing homebred finished fourth while pacing home in :25.1 in his career debut and has not tasted defeat in the six starts since, including a Grand Circuit win in the $93,750 Elevation where he chased down Melilo with a :53 second back-half. Odds On Mr Mamba has been established as the 7-5 morning-line favorite from post six while Dancingdreamer, who finished second to Odds On Mr Mamba in the World Record mile, leaves from post 10 with Hall of Famer David Miller in the bike as the 7-2 second choice.
On To Norway will immediately follow up Odds On Mr Mamba, bringing a 16-race win streak into the Super Final for sophomore trotting colts and geldings in the eleventh race of the evening. Leaving from post two with John De Long in between the wheels, the Muscle Massive-One Class Act gelding looks to complete the Indiana Sire Stakes sweep, having won all eight legs heading into the final to go along with stakes wins at The Horsemen at the Indiana State Fairgrounds and $90,000 Phil Langley. The Ron Burke trainee will leave from post two as the 9-5 morning line favorite with $301,844 already made on the year for owners Burke Racing Stable, Frank Baldachino, Black & White Stable and Michael Rosenthal. Arch-rival, Operator, leaves just two slots over from post four with Kyle Wilfong in the bike as the 5-2 second choice.
The quarter-million-dollar Super Finals will be joined by $70,000 championships for the aged male trotters and aged mare pacers, along with $50,000 finals for the mare trotters and aged male pacers with household names such as M-M’s Dream, Little Rocket Man, Ponda Jet and Walkin On Sunshine slated to compete.
