Jockey Rolando Aragon provides a demonstration on an Equicizer during Grand Mornings at the track. (Photo courtesy Indiana Grand) Indiana Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association’s (HBPA) popular Saturday morning program “Grand Mornings at the Track” returns to Indiana Grand Saturday, June 23. The interactive program is free and open to guests of [...]
Laissez les bons temps rouler! The National HBPA will hold its 2018 convention at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel New Orleans at the corner of Canal and Bourbon streets from Tuesday, March 13, through Saturday, March 17. Registration and hotel reservations are now open! A tentative agenda and complete information is available at www.hbpa.org/convention and [...]
Big Kick (Photo by Linscott Photography) For the first time in the history of the track, Indiana Grand, in cooperation with the Indiana Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association (HBPA), have teamed up to offer a special bid to the Claiming Crown. A special race was held as part of the Wednesday, Aug. [...]
Registration is now open for the National HBPA Convention set for March 7-11, 2017, at the South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa in Las Vegas. The tentative agenda is also posted. Click here for information about the convention and registration. The NHBPA March event will be the only convention in 2017. Elected HBPA horsemen from [...]
Eric Reed (Photo by Coady Photography) The National HBPA Foundation and HBPA state affiliates are rallying to assist trainer Eric Reed and his wife, owner Kay Reed, after 23 horses in their care were killed in an early-morning barn fire Sunday. The large barn, believed to have been struck by lightning, is one [...]
To all trainers, horse owners and farm owners/managers: On Monday, we need to light up the phone lines to Congress. We must rally our forces to make sure that Congress re-instates the Returning Worker Exemption that allows our temporary migrant work force to be in the U.S. legally for 10 months a year, return [...]
From left, Shanley Jackson, Malcolm Franklin, Eddie Perez, Kaylia Albright and Leandro Goncalves visited with children at Riley Hospital for Children in support of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month (Photo courtesy Indiana Grand) From Indiana Grand news release Posted: 9/30/16 Five jockeys from Indiana Grand Racing & Casino visited Riley Hospital for Children in [...]
Clerk of Scales Steve Cahill talks to the group about weights during Grand Mornings at the Track. From Indiana Grand news release Posted: 5/22/16 The Indiana Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association (HBPA) is hosting a series of breakfast events from May through August during the 2016 meet. The first of four “Grand Mornings [...]
From NTRA news release Posted: 5/13/16 Track surfaces expert Mick Peterson, multiple Eclipse Award-winning journalist Jennie Rees and renowned equine orthopedic researcher and surgeon Dr. Wayne McIlwraith are among the featured speakers at this year’s 15th annual Track Superintendents and Arena Managers Field Day Presented by John Deere, set for June 12-14, 2016, at Indiana [...]