Colts put on a show in penultimate Sires Stakes legs

Frankie Frankie and Atlee Bender won the $69,000 first division for freshman pacing colts. Frankie Frankie trailed the leaders by six lengths in sixth. Hetolditlikeitwas and Peter Wrenn led the field through a 27:0 opening quarter.

Colts put on a show in penultimate Sires Stakes legs. Frankie Frankie retuned $17.20 to those who showed their support at the betting windows. Art It Is (Tellitlikeitis) returned to winning ways in the thirteenth race. Strengthfromabove and John De Long completed a Tellit likeitis sired trifecta. The $68,500 second division of stakes action for the two-year-old pacing colts would go as the third race on the evening.

Art It Is has won three times in six starts this season. He is sired by Tellitlikeitis and out of the Indiana Sire Stakes winning Dream Works mare, JNB N Me. Soaring Now and Joey Putnam won the penultimate Sires Stake leg. The richest race on the evening was the $95,500 single division of Indiana sire stakes for sophomore pacing colts.

Soaring Now won his fourth race in ten starts in 2022. He went over $200,000 on the season and has a career bankroll of $258,840. Saturday's racing at Harrah’s Hoosier Park will be 14 races for three-year-old pacing fillies. First post is 6:15 pm.