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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Racetime on October 02, 2024, 02:39:19 PM

Title: Maine harness racing
Post by: Racetime on October 02, 2024, 02:39:19 PM
Who allows a 83 track master to race against 64 track masters at the Fryeburg Fair on Saturday?
Title: Re: Maine harness racing
Post by: Racetime on October 02, 2024, 04:20:09 PM
Sixfingerfreddie with a 83 track master wins today at Fryeburg  against 62 track master and back in the same class on Saturday... 
Title: Re: Maine harness racing
Post by: Racetime on October 02, 2024, 04:21:43 PM
Hard to believe Shane Bacon and Mike Cushing allow this shit to happen.
Title: Re: Maine harness racing
Post by: Bitter Truth on October 02, 2024, 05:08:01 PM
Nice to see you answered your own question. tmbz1
Title: Re: Maine harness racing
Post by: Call Sign Merlin on October 02, 2024, 08:34:24 PM
I mean Virgil Morgan has Sugar Instead going in the Montgomery County (OH) Fair for $6500 - the filly is 10 for 10 this year, record of 52 and has almost $700k on her card.  There are filly’s in there that can’t break 2 minutes. 
Title: Re: Maine harness racing
Post by: Bitter Truth on October 02, 2024, 08:39:48 PM
Brownmoose bitched and moaned that Charlie May did the same thing. Tough break
for the little guys. They can race where they fit, like it or not. $3K training mile. Why  not?
Title: Re: Maine harness racing
Post by: Call Sign Merlin on October 02, 2024, 09:13:34 PM
Brownmoose bitched and moaned that Charlie May did the same thing. Tough break
for the little guys. They can race where they fit, like it or not. $3K training mile. Why  not?

Punching down in life is tacky - especially for someone who can afford to pay $200k for a horse (or whatever the number was)
Title: Re: Maine harness racing
Post by: Bitter Truth on October 02, 2024, 09:25:32 PM
Some might say the same thing about being jelly of someone else's advantages and good fortune. 11.wp
Title: Re: Maine harness racing
Post by: Locked in with pace on October 03, 2024, 05:34:22 AM
I just looked the race up. He was dropping from the clouds to enter this race. A Normal condition sheet would not allow a horse to drop this much. He has a rail too. But only a 5 horse field so everyone gets a check. Heck, if he didn't put him in the race wouldn't have filled, If they were smart he should be barred from wagering so they don't end up with a minus pool. It was a sharp move by the trainer. If he fits the conditions, drop him in. Worth trying and it worked.  Makes a quick $4200 in 4 days.
Title: Re: Maine harness racing
Post by: Racetime on October 03, 2024, 06:14:11 AM
Nothing normal about Maine racing which allows trainers barred elsewhere to race in Maine. Also have the worse Race secretaries in the business.
Title: Re: Maine harness racing
Post by: Locked in with pace on October 03, 2024, 07:25:19 AM
 Who is the race secretary at Fryeburg? It is most likely not their full-time job.
Title: Re: Maine harness racing
Post by: chief yogi on October 04, 2024, 01:12:48 AM
its impossible to get horses entered at a fair in the middle of nowhere. extra hard when cumberland ran 35 races the 3 days before fryeburg started. that should not be allowed. there needs to be cooperation and its non existaint. plus cumberland does what it pleases. offered a hi5 wager on a race with only 6 horses against the state rules on hi 5 wagering. until last few years fryeburg ran 10 races a day full fields and rarely a horse making 2 starts at fryeburg. now they run every other day. maines premere meet has fallen from its standing.
Title: Re: Maine harness racing
Post by: Love For Animals on October 04, 2024, 09:51:19 AM
Don't forget the much larger purses at Cumberland just prior to Fryeburg.
Title: Re: Maine harness racing
Post by: chief yogi on October 04, 2024, 08:10:59 PM
yea, they raced those series and the bottom barrel horses had 10k finals.
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