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Once again, First Tracks Cumberland welcomes the $200,000-plus Maine Sire Stakes for two-year-old Pine Tree State-bred harness horses on Saturday, Sept. 30, being held on the final day of the 151st Cumberland Fair.

The freshman filly pacers kicked off a long, four-day holiday weekend at historic Windsor Fair on Friday, Sept. 1 with two $14,000-plus divisions of the Maine Sire Stakes.

"All good things must come to an end.” English poet Geoffrey Chaucer is credited with the original use of this idiom in the 1300s, which is commonly used as a proverb to remind us that nothing great will last forever. This aptly describes the 2023 winning streak of Marc Tardif’s Luke McGook.

Three-year-old pacing gelding Luke McGook earned another victory at Bangor Raceway on Wednesday, July 26, giving the Marc Tardif-trained seasonal star an unblemished record of five-for-five in the glamour boys division of the Maine Sire Stakes.

CUMBERLAND, ME – Rocksapatriot (Rockincam) used a well-played pocket trip to win the $6,000 Camp Kippewa Pace on Saturday (July 22) at Cumberland, his second harness racing win in three starts. Scoring from post two for driver Dave Ingraham, the former track record holder ducked in behind pacesetter Fern Hill Flight (Andy Harrington, 10-1) to

Saturday’s (July 15) $6,000 featured pace at Cumberland looks to be a clash of the region’s top pacers fighting against one another, with the successful perpetrator looking for a summons to the $25,000 Pine Tree Invitational Pace on August 5. 

Mike Graffam trainee Mrs Foxy Roxy strutted her stuff down the Bangor runway on Wednesday, July 5 to capture the season’s first two-year-old Maine Sire Stakes, the $15,123 freshman filly pace.

Fans showed Maine harness racing some love on Friday at First Tracks Cumberland with an all-time record handle of $265,000.

The annual Summer BCMFest on Sun., July 2, and concerts by The Jeremiahs and the Kane Sisters highlight upcoming Irish/Celtic events in Greater Boston. Club Passim’s Summer BCMFest is a daylong affair that starts at 10 a.m. with its live music brunch, featuring Irish tunes and songs by Kat Wallace and Jimmy Kelly. At 3 p.m., the event moves outside to Palmer Street, where

Muscle Gene took the $5,500 top trot at Cumberland on Friday (June 9) afternoon, winning his second start in row at the Southern Maine oval.