Sunday promises to be in an afternoon of interesting entertainment at Bangor Raceway as the Anah Temple Shrine Parade visits and the track plays host to a bicycle race between Bangor Mayor Dan Tremble and a spokesmen for Penn National Gaming, the company that owns the track.

The day will also feature the usual harness racing, with a post time of 1:30 p.m., including the Anah Temple Shrine Trot.

The Anah Temple Shrine Parade will begin marching around the track at 12:15 p.m. and will end just before the first race of the day. The parade will feature different units and floats from keystone cops, to bagpipe players, to go-karts.

Officials at the raceway hope the parade will be a large draw for families and that some of these families stay for the racing.

“It’s the only chance that people in the immediate Bangor area get to see [the parade] is certainly one of the reasons [for hosting the parade],” said Bangor Raceway general manager Fred Nichols, “But it’s also very traditional, there’s been an Anah Temple Shrine Trot race for decades.”

The Anah Temple Shrine Trot will feature faster horses and a larger purse than normal races. Nichols also hopes to see a track record set during the race.

“We may get a trot record Sunday, the track is in great condition. We’ve really had some fast miles this year and our trot record isn’t all that fast,” he said.

The current trot record is 2:00.0, set by Westridge Gossip in 1997.

The day will also feature The Pepsi Bicycle Race between Tremble and Eric Schippers of Penn National Gaming Inc. The two men will pedal down the stretch in front of the grandstand. The bicycles used by the contestants will be given away to two children in the crowd, courtesy of Pepsi.

Every year Bangor Raceway makes a donation to the Anah Shriners organization.

Racing notebook

. The Fourth of July saw Bangor Raceway’s second-largest handle of the season at $54,046. Nichols estimated the crowd size to be more than 2,000, much larger than any other day this season. This year’s handle was more than $5,000 larger than last year’s.

. The Fourth of July at Bangor Raceway held the first four races of the Maine Sire Stakes circuit. Westridge Nogossip, owned by Paul Mullen of Easton and driven by Steve Mahar, took first place in the 2-year old colt trotter race, winning a purse of $5,950. The other three races were all from the 3-year-old colt pacer division. Mic Mac Mike, owned by John Lohens of Union; Andy, owned by Roosevelt Susi of Cumberland; and Hillbillie Banjo, owned by Sidney Gray of Danforth; were the three first- place finishers of those races.

. Saturday saw a handle of $28,356, up 18 percent over last year’s same-day handle, and Wednesday night the track’s handle was $36,569, up almost 25 percent over last year. Post time is 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and 1:30 p.m. on Sunday.

. Wednesday also featured Maine Sire Stakes racing, as Abbes In Town, owned by Brent Olsen, and Baton, owned by Richard Mathurin, took first-place finishes in the two 2-year-old filly pacer races. Carapelli, owned by Shirley Hutchins, took first place in the 3-year-old filly trotters race.