French trotter Elegant Dulupin FR was parked every step of the way and resolutely prevailed over the favorite McStoned Again to take Friday’s (April 19) $8,219 featured trot at Cumberland.
So Rock N Roll has been a stakes-winner in Maine and Massachusetts during his career, and now the four-year-old pacer will kick off his 2024 campaign with a visit to The Meadowlands.
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.
Retiring pacer Ira Chief made his final official start as a 14-year-old a winning one, conquering his peers in the $6,000 Auld Lang Syne race at Cumberland on Saturday (Dec. 23), which was part of the track’s third annual Au Revoir Retirement Showcase.
Driver Aaron Hall swept all three of the $6,000 divisions of the Jack Frost Trotting Series at First Tracks Cumberland on Sunday, Dec. 17 two of which were from his own stable and one from his dad Craig’s barn.