Whatawonder

The Maine Sire Stakes two-year-old finals featured a pair of unbeaten youngsters with a few surprises in the other divisions on Saturday, Sept. 28, the closing day of the 152nd Cumberland Fair.

While winning races is nothing new for veteran conditioner Valerie Grondin, driving the three-year-old male trotter Chipper Dale to victory on is also familiar territory.

Freshman trotting phenom Whatawonder has continued his wondrous run of dominance, taking his seventh consecutive victory on Saturday, Aug. 31 at Maine’s Windsor Fair.

The Maine Sire Stakes closed out the week of racing at the historic Skowhegan State Fair on Saturday, Aug. 18 with four $26,000-plus divisions of two and three-year-old trotters rolling down the livel...

Maine’s two- and three-year-old trotters wrapped up the meet at Topsham Fair on Saturday, Aug. 10 to compete in four $21,000-plus divisions of the Maine Sire Stakes, with trainer Valerie Grondin captu...

All four $22,000-plus divisions of Maine-sired trotters invaded Cumberland Raceway on Saturday, July 27 with several divisions captured by the usual suspects, yet others seeing some fresh faces emerge...

Four $21,000-plus divisions of Maine Sire Stakes were contested on Sunday, July 14 at historic Bass Park in Bangor for a trotting extravaganza, with each division represented by the Downeast faithful.

Maine’s two-year-old trotters rolled into their first Sires Stakes event of the season on Saturday, July 6, with two $20,000-plus divisions opening the 12-race card at Cumberland Raceway.