Sunday is Shrine Day at Bass Park and it begins at 12:45 p.m. with a gigantic Anah Temple Shrine parade. Several other special events are featured on Bangor’s 12-dash racing program following the Shrine parade, including the Shrine Trot, two divisions of the Billings Classic Amateur Driving Championship… Read More
Most Maine horsemen and owners would agree that one of the most successful aspects of Maine harness racing is its sire stakes program. For the past 27 years, anyone interested in owning a Maine-bred horse has had the opportunity to participate in the closed Maine Standardbred Breeders Stakes… Read More
Bangor Raceway heads into the final three weeks of its 30-day extended race meet with a pretty full schedule of racing and special events. On Sunday’s nine-dash program, the historic Bangor racing facility will host the initial leg of one of Maine’s richest pacing series – The Pine… Read More
If you want to get some idea of the kind of speed you can expect for The Pine Tree Pacing Series, Bangor Raceway will give area race fans a sneak preview Sunday. The feature pace on Bangor’s 11-dash program is a $2,400 pace with two of the declared… Read More
Racing fans have often labeled harness racing the mystery sport because the average fan knows little about it beyond what they see from the grandstand or watch on the racetrack. During the past two years, however, the United States Trotting Association has been trying to change that closed… Read More
The weather in May can sometimes be great for racing and at other times, it can be very cold, unpredictable and not very conducive to harness racing. Bangor Raceway experienced both of those conditions during its first week of racing. On opening Sunday, the weather… Read More
For almost 60 years, Bangor businessman William “Bill” Varney has held the dream that someday he would follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and drive Standardbred racehorses. “For me, it’s always been about driving ever since I jogged my grandfather’s horses in Pembroke,” Varney said recently. Read More
Bangor Raceway opens its 30-day extended race meet in a little more than a week on Sunday, May 13. Sunday, however, the thundering sounds of hoofs in competition will be heard for the first time since last year as Bass Park holds the first of… Read More
There are two subjects Kermit Allen of Blue Hill likes to talk about – blueberries and trotting horses. Allen is the owner of G.M. Allen and Son Inc. Blueberries, a blueberry processing and freezer plant in Orland, a business his father started in 1912 in… Read More
Activity at Bass Park is increasing daily as racing officials prepare for the return of harness racing to eastern and northern Maine. Bangor Raceway will open on Sunday, May 13, for a 30-day extended race meet under the auspices of Bangor Historic Track, the investor… Read More
Except for a couple of new faces added to Scarborough Downs’ management team, everything else seems pretty much the same, including the philosophy of its owner, the late Joseph Ricci. Ricci, the flamboyant and controversial owner of Scarborough Downs for more than 25 years, died… Read More
There is an old horse racing story that says, “a new horse owner comes to the racetrack with a pocketful of money and no knowledge while a horse trainer comes to the track with all kinds of knowledge, and no money. In a year, the roles are reversed… Read More