Four $14,000-plus divisions of Maine Sire Stakes for two- and three-year-old pacing fillies went postward on Friday (July 14) at Bangor, with three of the distaffs taking new lifetime records over the hot and fast Bass Park surface.
The Officers and Directors of the Maine Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association (MSBOA) have announced a new mare incentive program, which will provide up to $30,000 of payments in lieu of stud fees for mares bred to a Maine stallion during the 2023 breeding season.
Saturday’s (July 15) $6,000 featured pace at Cumberland looks to be a clash of the region’s top pacers fighting against one another, with the successful perpetrator looking for a summons to the $25,000 Pine Tree Invitational Pace on August 5.
Hesjustadelight made his first lifetime stakes race a memorable one, cruising to victory in the $14,598 Maine-sired two-year-old colt and gelding pace at Bangor Raceway on Friday, July 7.
Mike Graffam trainee Mrs Foxy Roxy strutted her stuff down the Bangor runway on Wednesday, July 5 to capture the season’s first two-year-old Maine Sire Stakes, the $15,123 freshman filly pace.