$2.3 million Indiana Super Finals Friday

Lexington, KY — Former University of Kentucky and NBA basketball star Sam Bowie said he had strongly considered supplementing Hot Mess Express to the upcoming Breeders Crown later this month at The Meadowlands, but after conferring with trainer Tony Alagna, the decision was made to keep the star 3-year-old filly pacer in Indiana following her start in Friday night’s $250,000 Indiana Sires Stakes Super Final at Harrah’s Hoosier Park.

Total purses on the evening card is $2,365,000 as every one of the 15 races is a stakes event.

Bowie said Hot Mess Express — who is six-for-six in ISS competition this year and also has a career-best 1:48.3 win in the Mistletoe Shalee in mid-July at The Meadowdlands — will following up her ISS Super Final start by lining up behind the gate in the upcoming Pegasus, Circle City and USS Indianapolis at Hoosier Park, before calling it a year.

“I was thinking about supplementing her (to the Breeders Crown), but I’m going to let her race in the final and then those three races, and not go in the Breeders Crown,” said Bowie. “I was going to race her in the final and then ship her to New Jersey, but I decided to go this route. She’ll have those three starts at Hoosier and then we’ll shut her down.”

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