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Maine harness racing
« 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?

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Re: Maine harness racing
« Reply #1 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... 

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Re: Maine harness racing
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2024, 04:21:43 PM »
Hard to believe Shane Bacon and Mike Cushing allow this shit to happen.

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Re: Maine harness racing
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2024, 05:08:01 PM »
Nice to see you answered your own question. tmbz1

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Re: Maine harness racing
« Reply #4 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. 

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Re: Maine harness racing
« Reply #5 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?

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Re: Maine harness racing
« Reply #6 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)

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Re: Maine harness racing
« Reply #7 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

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Re: Maine harness racing
« Reply #8 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.

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Re: Maine harness racing
« Reply #9 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.

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Re: Maine harness racing
« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2024, 07:25:19 AM »
 Who is the race secretary at Fryeburg? It is most likely not their full-time job.

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Re: Maine harness racing
« Reply #11 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.

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Re: Maine harness racing
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2024, 09:51:19 AM »
Don't forget the much larger purses at Cumberland just prior to Fryeburg.

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Re: Maine harness racing
« Reply #13 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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