The final day of the First Tracks Cumberland’s Winter Festival extended pari-mutuel meet included an appearance by Santa Claus in the first race, along with a thrilling dead heat in the $10,000 Holly Late Closer Series final on Christmas Eve Sunday, Dec. 24.
Four $14,000-plus divisions of Maine Sire Stakes for trotters will open the historic Windsor Fair on Sunday (Aug. 27), with the two- and three-year-old divisions being contested before the regular card at 12:15 p.m.
Pickmepickme handily took a new lifetime mark of 1:56.2 winning her $14,684 division of the Maine Sire Stakes for three-year-old pacing fillies at Bangor on Sunday, June 25).
As a Maine citizen and standardbred harness horse owner, it was disheartening and disappointing to see any Maine newspaper publish an article written by Boston University students who likely have never stepped foot in a standardbred barn, farm or race track. “There’s an ugly side to Maine harness racing” (Jan. 31) was one-sided. The number […]