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Two full fields of eight three-year-old pacers highlight the first round of Maine Sire Stakes action at Bangor on Wednesday (June 14), which marks the start of the 18-week season of New England’s premier harness racing showcase.
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.
Muscle Gene came from off the pace with his owner Ron Cushing in the bike to capture the opening race trot on an abbreviated Friday, June 2 program at Cumberland.
Under a line drive for most of the mile, Booraa N scored an impressive gate to wire victory with the mile of her life in the $25,000 Winners-Over Pace for fillies and mares at Plainridge Park on Tuesday afternoon (May 23).
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.