Sunday, August 29th from 11am to 4pm at Deering Oaks Park in Portland.
Join us for an all day festival to celebrate pets & the people who love them, all while benefiting the
Animal Cancer Foundation! We’ll have live music all day with pet vendor booths, demonstrations, food trucks, and more! As always, bringing your furry companions are encouraged!
If you own a
pet-related business, we’d love for you to join us! Please fill out the form below and someone will be in touch with you about renting a vendor booth.
Pet Rock in the Park 2021 Vendor Form
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The Battle of Lake Erie, the longest running stakes event hosted at MGM Northfield Park, has once again attracted a star-studded cast for its 2021 edition. The $200,000 event, which is carded as the 10th race on Saturday (June 5), features a competitive field of the sport’s best open pacers with a combined 287 victories.
Introducing the 2021 $200,000 Battle of Lake Erie field:
#1 Western Joe - This seven-year-old son of Western Ideal is the 7-2 second choice. Christopher Choate trains this East Coast stalwart and has named Aaron Merriman to drive. Merriman recently notched his 13,000th driving win, is the leading driver in North America, and is Northfield’s all-time winningest driver. Western Joe, who is owned by Anthony Ruggeri and Richard Tosies, is out of the Falcon Seelster mare Ante Fay. Falcon Seelster won the very first Battle of Lake Erie in 1986. Western Joe’s lifetime mark is 1:47.3 with a career bankroll of $821,008.
Fred And Ginger, a world record-setting pacer who earned $1.05 million in his career, passed Monday (May 31) at Farriers Acres Farm in Illinois, where he was standing as a stallion, the horse’s former owner Howard Taylor said. Fred And Ginger was 14.
A son of Real Artist out of Graceful Motion, Fred And Ginger was the younger full brother of millionaire mare Ginger And Fred. He won 26 of 89 lifetime starts, with his most lucrative victory coming in 2010 at age three in the $300,000 Max C. Hempt Memorial at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.
Another memorable triumph came in a preliminary round of the 2013 TVG Series at The Meadowlands, where Fred And Ginger defeated future Hall of Famer Sweet Lou by a head in a world record 1:47.3. The field also included Modern Legend, Pet Rock, Dancin Yankee, Golden Receiver, Warrawee Needy and Bettors Edge.
From Stretch Armstrong to Pet Rocks to an updated Easy-Bake Oven, scroll through the list and take a trip down memory lane to recall some highlights of the often-overlooked 70s.
A quartet of $12,600 paces, two for males and two for females, headed the Wednesday (May 26) program at Harrah’s Philadelphia.
The faster of the male winners was the American Ideal sophomore colt Ill Drink To That, who made an early move to control the pace and then held off major danger Transparency by 1-1/4 lengths to reduce his mark to 1:51. Dexter Dunn guided the Chris Ryder trainee for Craig Henderson, Lawrence Minowitz, Robert Mondillo and Oompa’s Farm Inc.
In the other section for “the boys,” the Always B Miki sophomore Grand Cayman advanced uncovered to make the lead in the lane, and then paced away from favoured Carrythetorchman by 3-1/4 lengths to lower his speed badge to 1:54. Tim Tetrick drove for trainer Michael Hall, who shares ownership with CTC Stable and Howard Taylor.