Cumberland Raceway

Two Cold Fold winning at First Tracks Cumberland

Full Cards At Cumberland For Preakness Weekend

With Cumberland Raceway the only track in the Pine Tree State that is racing this week, both the Friday (May 16) and Saturday (May 17) cards at the iconic Southern Maine oval are chock full of opportu...

Rocksapatriot winning at First Tracks Cumberland

Racing Returns To Cumberland Sunday

November 03, 2023

Racing resumes at the iconic Cumberland Raceway on Sunday, Nov. 5 for the first of 19 Southern Maine racing dates, knows as the “Winter Festival,” with some of the Pine Tree State’s top pacers kicking...

Harness racing at Shenandoah Downs

USHDC Gearing Up For Big Fall Season

September 19, 2023

The Florida Amateur Driving Club (FADC), left “homeless” with the closure of Pompano Park last year, was ‘“reincarnated” months ago as the United States Harness Drivers Club (USHDC) and, due to the ho...

Timbo Slice

Polar Express Makes Second Stop At Cumberland

December 08, 2022

The Polar Express makes its second stop at Cumberland this weekend (Dec.10-11), with seven of the second elimination legs totalling $36,000 in purses sprinkled throughout the three weekend cards at th...

Last Hurrah For Maine Trotting Titans

December 30, 2021

As they have done more than a dozen times in the past, Roadshow Vic and Beer League will meet on the racetrack one last time in the $2,000 Geriatric Invitational Trot on Friday (Dec. 31) at Maine’s Cu...

Longshots Aplenty At Cumberland

November 13, 2021

Punters who were both brave and bold excelled on Cumberland’s Saturday (Nov. 13) card as only two favourites found the Blue Seal winner's circle, with six races paying double-digit win tickets.

Another Maine Stakes Win For Wild Oats

August 05, 2021

Sophomore trotter Wild Oats picked up his second Maine Standardbred Breeders Stake (MSBS) at Cumberland and third of the season on Wednesday (Aug. 4), winning in lifetime best 1:59.1 over the historic...

Phipps Memorial On Tap Saturday

This weekend’s Jake Phipps Memorial Trot, carded as race nine on the 12-race program at Cumberland on Saturday (July 31), features some of the best fast-class trotters currently racing in the state of...

Cumberland To Host Phipps Memorial

If you mention Jake Phipps to anyone around the state of Maine’s many pari-mutuel fairs and race tracks, you are likely to get a similar response, “That kid really loved harness horses.”

Cumberland Hosts Freshmen In MSBS

Two $9,690 divisions of the Maine Standardbred Breeders Stakes (MSBS) for two-year-old pacing colts and geldings highlight the Wednesday (July 28) card at Cumberland, which hosts a full card of 12 rac...

Patanjali N Upsets In Legends Final

Driver David Ingraham is no stranger to driving longshots. Although respected by his peers, the 59-year-old reinsman is perhaps losing a few mounts to the up-and-coming young guns of Maine. But that f...

Call Me Maverick Leads MSBS

Harness fans will never hear trainer Gordon Corey brag about one of his horses, despite their past success or future potential. But when the three-year-old male pacers make their fourth and final stop...

Donald Richards Series Begins

The first leg of the Donald Richards Maine Legends Pacing Series went to post with two splits on Tuesday (July 6) at Cumberland, each vying for a $4,000 purse and a ticket to the $12,500 final for mar...