Maine’s top trotters will go postward just after the famed Kentucky Oaks winning filly dons her blanket of roses on Friday (May 3) at Cumberland. The afternoon card features 11 races, with the $8,219 featured trot slated as race nine with Knight Angel (3-1) listed as the early morning line favourite, and runs in concert with racing from Louisville, Kentucky.
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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.
Two of Maine harness racing’s favourite elder statesmen, 85-year-old Bob Nadeau and his trusty 14-year-old grey steed Putnams Storm, made quick work of the $7,000 Frosty final at Cumberland on Friday, Dec. 22, winning the pop-up series final in 2:02.1 and putting an exclamation point on a poignant career.