Five-year-old pacer Art Of Endurance has been on a winning streak that started U.S. Thanksgiving weekend, and could very well continue through Christmas. Picking up his fourth win in a row on Saturday, Dec. 16 at First Tracks Cumberland, the Benson Merrill trainee is prospering in the colder climate of wintertime racing in Southern Maine.
Veteran pacer Lucan Hanover showed why he was the heavy favourite in his division of the Gingerbred Series on Friday, Dec. 15, picking up his second consecutive victory at First Tracks Cumberland.
A foggy winter morning made it impossible for fans and racing officials to see the backstretch; however, that didn’t slow down amateur reinsman Hunter Lofthus from getting his first pari-mutuel victory aboard Martaritaondarocks on Sunday, Dec. 10 at First Tracks Cumberland.
Veteran reinsman Kevin Switzer Jr. put on a driving clinic on Friday, Dec. 8 at First Tracks Cumberland, winning five races on the 11-race program, including half of the six divisions of the first leg of the Gingerbred Late Closing series.
Race secretary Rob Pennington hit a home run with his holiday-themed winter late closing series, resulting in the presentation of over a dozen legs of four individual series being contested over the upcoming three-day (Dec. 8 – 10) weekend at First Tracks Cumberland.