BANGOR, ME – Luke McGook (Rock N’ Roll World), the fast horse with the funny name, provided for a mild upset while capturing Saturday’s (Oct. 14) $71,134 Maine Sire Stakes for 3-year-old harness racing pacing colts and geldings, highlighting the rich $280,000-plus Pine Tree State-bred sophomore finals at Bangor. Trained by the powerful Marc Tardif
CUMBERLAND, ME – The Maine faithful were out in force on Saturday (Sept. 30) when the Pine Tree State-bred freshmen battled for bragging rights in the $200,000-plus Maine Sire Stakes harness racing finals for 2-year-olds on the closing day of the iconic Cumberland Fair. The swiftest stakes race of the afternoon program was captured by
Maine’s three-year-old pacing colts and geldings got away from the fairgrounds and invaded historic Bass Park in Bangor for two $14,000-plus divisions of the Sire Stakes and when the dust settled, it was the Tardif Taskforce that came away with the lion’s share of the hardware after sweeping both events but not without significant effort.
A quartet of $14,000-plus divisions of the Maine Sire Stakes for trotters opened the 205th year of the Skowhegan State Fair on Sunday (Aug. 13), with several of the divisional leaders cushioning their point totals at the historic venue.
CUMBERLAND, ME – Saturday’s (August 5) $25,000 Pine Tree Invitational headlines the richest overnight harness racing program in the history of First Tracks Cumberland. Coupled with nine additional $10,000 Pop-Ups, the total non-stakes race purses equal $115,000, the most ever for an overnight card. Add in four Maine Sire Stakes events and the total purses for the