Driver Aaron Hall is giving new meaning to the old raceway term sitting chilly in the sulky, especially when he steps out on the track with the aptly-named Cool Man Dude. On Friday, June 12, the pacer pushed his skein of consecutive winning scores to five with yet another brilliant gate-to-wire demolition of Bangor Raceway’s best and brightest upper-class set.

Leaving in lockstep with JK Objection (Heath Campbell) Cool Man Dude jockeyed to the quarter-pole through a brisk :27.3 opening clocking before gaining strategic control of what was soon to become another jog through historic Bass Park.

With Hall barely twitching a muscle, Cool Man Dude imperceptibly accelerated into identical :28.4 third and fourth panels, eventually striding in-hand to a 2-1/2 length margin at the wire timed in a breezy 1:56.

The win was the fifth consecutive score for the Steven Vafiades trainee who was claimed for $6,000 USD on April 25 by owners Michael and Scott McGee and has since powerfully risen through Bangor’s claiming ranks to become the current master the optional $15,000 USD set.

Cool Man Dude, an eight-year-old son of Western Vintage-Darriwillian Girl, won for the 40th time in his career on Friday. Impressively, his 12 seasonal scores currently lands him in a second pace tie for most wins by an aged pacer in North America. Shine A Light leads that race with 14 seasonal wins.

In other Bangor news, driver Hall has been on a rampage himself this week at Bangor Raceway, winning four races during the Wednesday (June 10) card followed by three top tallies on Friday. His productive week has elevated him into third place on the Bangor Raceway leaderboard with 20 local wins, trailing just current top dog, Heath Campbell (26 wins) and McGwire Sowers (22 wins).

The Maine Sire Stakes program makes its 2026 debut at Bangor Raceway on Wednesday, June 17 as the three-year-old colt pacing division invades the Queen City oval. At least two splits of stakes stars are expected to be strutting their stuff on Wednesday for purses expected to be in excess of $15,000 USD per dash.

Live harness racing at Bangor Raceway during the month of June will be conducted on a two-day-per-week schedule with the Wednesday cards going to post at 3 p.m. (EDT) and the brand new Friday matinee performances kicking off at 12:10 p.m.

(Bangor Raceway)