New track in Maine

[Atthetrack7]

 It is past time just to FLUSH MAINE, if you cant race at a real track by now the sport really doesn't need you. Maine would be better off NOT seen or heard.  It's history is nice to read about, so lets all go to a Library and forget about the joke of harness racing called Maine, the racing in Maine, is indeed a pain.... in the ass

[June b]

You are a moron!! We be racing i maine long after your dead!!hopefully sooner than later! Maine is a great place to race and lots o good horseman ! I feel sorry for a hater like you!!

[chief yogi]

scarborough is not an answer. cumberland needs improvements but is the only ready to go option. cumby also has lights which has allways done better than just day racing. improving oxfords facilities and forcing oxford to be a racino is another short term option. state should have forced oxford to race since the day they got a casino. cumby and oxford are both a little out of the way. a new track close to a highway exit is the only long term soultion for maine. hope it happens in my life.

[caddy]

It is past time just to FLUSH MAINE, if you cant race at a real track by now the sport really doesn't need you. Maine would be better off NOT seen or heard.  It's history is nice to read about, so lets all go to a Library and forget about the joke of harness racing called Maine, the racing in Maine, is indeed a pain.... in the ass

so harsh, yet true.  The rain in maine falls mainly on insane. * it's actually barely a state - let alone qualified to have more than one track.   look over the entries for a who's-who of has-been horses  *  just keepin' it real.

[BIG DOM]

Odds of new track... 6/5

[June b]

Wrong 1000 to 1 Scarborough has new 2year lease! After that 100 to 1!!! Only with sports betting!

[lukee]

YOU HAD A DECENT track in Maine -at OXFORD.
THE ISSUE WAS THE FOLKS RUNNING IT KNEW
LESS THAN NOTHING ABOUT IT>
AND YOU COULD NOT TELL THEM ANYTHING>
ONLY THING THEY KNEW IS LINE THEIR POCKETS
WITH THE PARKING MONEY_ TRUE STORY__

[June b]

Absolutely we all know how that worked out these new guys are looking to do just the same and you can count on it !!  Oxford look at the money them two grabbed ! Th NEW TWO just want to grab money let's fix what we have and hope the commission makes them make the changes

[chief yogi]

commission is as much the problem.  just look at who gets to come to maine and race or drive, anyone.  scarborough should not be allowed to run unless new people are running it. not the terry family. not anyone that is there now. cant think of one. maybe keep the mouth sweeny. not a fan of his so to speak but i do know he cares and does try.

[June b]

Agreed chief commission is the main problem two of them will probably be indicted I'm trying to put money into their own pockets

[bass park]

looks like december19 and 20 are the big days at the racing commission. should be fun.
june - are you talking about 2 people on the commission or 2 people at scarborough?

[June b]

LOL definitely the commission Bass! go to the tape ! We need. At the very least 78 days of racing at the. One  track for full time racing. To survive Here!  Just the bottom line

[Michael Petrelli]

New tracks and casinos. The go to knee jerk reactions to fixing racing. Wrong, maybe a bigger track would help. But there's nothing you can do to change the basics of what racing is. And today it's antiquated and obsolete where the younger generation "that's the fan base you need if you want to survive" wants instant gratification and hands on interaction. Build a new track, you'll have an instant interest for a while, then the novelty will wear off and you're right back where you started. This is 2019, harness racing is in the same category as 8-track tapes, rotary phones and woodside station wagons.

[June b]

Unfortunately sad but true😞

[caddy]

New tracks and casinos. The go to knee jerk reactions to fixing racing. Wrong, maybe a bigger track would help. But there's nothing you can do to change the basics of what racing is. And today it's antiquated and obsolete where the younger generation "that's the fan base you need if you want to survive" wants instant gratification and hands on interaction. Build a new track, you'll have an instant interest for a while, then the novelty will wear off and you're right back where you started. This is 2019, harness racing is in the same category as 8-track tapes, rotary phones and woodside station wagons.

Fraternal clubs, Church committees all suffer same plight toward ruination as the harness racing sport.  The insiders in the management and director positions live by but one rule.  "That's the way we've always done it."  That is it - simple as can be.  No new ideas, no new blood, no advancement to the 21st century.  AND, that right there is why the sport slots right in next to 8 track tapes, mood rings, smoking in supper clubs, rotary phones, The Lennon Sisters, sock hops and Sunday blue laws.