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.
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.