Marcus Miller feels at home in Indiana and is second in the standings of the Harness Racing Driver in Harrah’s Hoosier Park this season and is looking forward to his first time he participates in the grade 2 than patch stakes off the track.
Hoosier Park organizes the $ 300,000 on Friday than patch for older male pacers, when a 11 field goes behind the Startpoort in the 32nd edition of the event. Miller will drive Coach Stefanos (Order of order) For his father, trainer Erv Miller, departs from post six.
Coach Stefanos, the 2024 breeders Crown Open Pace Champ, has a victory of the commitment to his credit this season and in June a division of the G3 Dave Brower Memorial and missed by just a neck in the G2 William R. Hahton Memorial in July. Both races were in the Meadowlands, where James Macdonald was in the Sulky.
Miller drove coach Stefanos five times this year, most recently to fourth place in the Open in Hoosier on July 25. The two worked together for a victory in the Open in May and became second despite a: 25.3 last quarter in June.
“Hoosier quickly became a home for me and I am excited to be part of it,” said Miller about the Dan Patch. “I think we have pulled well. It looks like a good place. It is a group that he can handle when things work. I am excited.”
The 36-year-old Miller, a resident of Illinois, won several driving titles on the Chicago circuit before moving to the east in 2013. Last year he started riding again in the Midwest again and decided at the end of December to return there.
“I spent most of the second half of last year in the midwest,” said Miller. “I spoke with my wife and we had always wanted to come back at one point. I had all my foot in the door, so it seemed the right time to go. We are really happy that we have.”
Last year Miller finished second in the driver’s rankings on Illinois’ Hawthorne Race Course. He started to ride in the fall in Hoosier and so far this season has posted 142 victories over The Oval. He is second in victories behind multi -year champion Trace Tetrick, who this year has 180 triumphs, and for second place under the profit percentage of the track in Win percentage on 16.6.
This year he also drove to Oak Grove Racing & Gaming, where he came fourth in victories for fourth place and fifth was in purses. In general, Miller has 190 victories this season (ranked 22nd in North America) and $ 2.58 million in wallets (26th).
“It’s going great,” said Miller, who has 4,919 career wins. “I enjoy coming to work. I quickly got support from many barns and I was lucky to get a strong line -up of horses to drive. I couldn’t be happier with how this summer disappeared.”
In the then patch of Friday, Miller and coach Stefanos are confronted with a field with a 3-1 morning line favorite Little Rocket Man, 7-2 Second-choice DESPERATE MAN, McKEE Memorial Division winner captain Luke and Multimillionaires Bythemissal and Charlie Mayy.
Coach Stefanos finished a death -heated second in last year’s then patch. The 5-year-old gelding is best known for his breeders’ crown victory in the Meadowlands in October, where he came from the 10th with a quarter of miles to win with half a length in 1: 48.3. He was more than nine lengths back on three-quarters, but walked home in: 25.3 (fastest in the race with a full second) to score the upset on 13-1 with MacDonald.
Coach Stefanos has disappeared: 25.4 or faster in his last quarter 18 times in 56 lifetime races, including a: 24.2 Scorcher in 2023 at Hoosier in an elimination of a breeders.
Before his career, coach Stefanos hit the board 38 times, won 20 times and earned almost $ 1.37 million for owners Ken Duffy, D&M Trading II and John (Coach) Stefanos. His 1: 47.2 victory in his brower division is only one fifth of a second of the fastest figure of every Pacer this season.
“He’s so bad,” said Miller. “There are quite a few horses that can go so much early in the mile, but the way he does it at the end of the mile is quite amazing. Often the open (at Hoosier) are a short field, and everyone knows the way he racet, so it’s hard to make it happen for him when there are only five or six in being.
“He never got out of battle. He always has a chance.”
Post-time in the first race is Friday 5:30 PM (EDT) in the Hoosier Park of Harrah, with the Dan Patch Stakes as Race 13. Start at 8 p.m., Racing will be broadcast live on FOX Sports. Gabe Prewitt and Jessica Otten will be on schedule to comment, go back and forth with Horseshoe Indianapolis from 8-9:30 am on FS2 before you shift to FS1 from 9.30 pm-11 hours
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