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 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.
Homegrown reinsman Nick Graffam started Saturday’s (May 20) Cumberland program needing just one victory to push him over the edge to the 1,000-win threshold. That moment finally arrived in the eighth race, where a horse named Four Finger Floyd put the Maine-native into the four-figure win category.
Nick Graffam won the featured $6,500 Winners Over Pace on Friday (May 19) at Cumberland with The Bird Dance N, putting the local reinsman just one win away from the 1,000 lifetime win benchmark.
The Bird Dance N, driven by Nick Graffam, scored a big win in the $20,000 Spring Fling Late Closer Final No. 2 at First Tracks Cumberland on Saturday, April 29.