Enhance Yourcalm N made a third consecutive jump in class and this week to the top level, $25,000 Winners-Over Handicap featured trot. But despite the tougher company, the results remained the same as Enhance Yourcalm N won again on Thursday (Sept. 28) to remain undefeated at Plainridge Park.
The $3 million Massachusetts Sire Stakes got underway at Plainridge Park on Monday (Sept. 25) and visiting drivers Yannick Gingras and Scott Zeron both had hat tricks, driving three winners apiece out of the eight MASS divisions that went postward. And it's noteworthy that those divisional winners were sent behind the gate by eight different trainers.
Maine’s two-year-old pacing fillies stormed through historic Bass Park a day early with two $14,000-plus divisions, in a successful pre-emptive strike on Friday, Sept. 15 against the potential havoc of Hurricane Lee.
Maine’s three-year-old pacing colts and geldings got away from the fairgrounds and invaded historic Bass Park in Bangor for two $14,000-plus divisions of the Sire Stakes and when the dust settled, it was the Tardif Taskforce that came away with the lion’s share of the hardware after sweeping both events but not without significant effort.
Team Tardif’s Two Fold Cold has provided his owner/trainer with an emotional rollercoaster this season. Winning the fastest $14,487 division of the Maine Sire Stakes for two-year-old pacing colts on Saturday, Sept. 2 at Windsor is only part of the story.