This post provides readers with the opportunity to download two digital publications that address the possibility of creating a living and working environment that reintroduces people from within and outside the State of Maine to the horse. When the horse was king, Maine people understood the importance of the horse to their lives and its contributions to…

Several years ago I published a digital publication titled, S. Dexter’s Maine Spirit of the Turf. I published eight issues totaling more than 400 pages. In many of the issues I included a column, Outside the Oval. The purpose of this column was to share ideas that did not come from long time members of the harness racing…

Maine and New Brunswick Circuit Racing Locations  — Race Secretaries The Trotter and Pacer (Annual Blue Book 1923) The beginning of the age when the horse was king may have been in the era when Lady Suffolk broke the 2:30 minute mile. This was during the time period when premiere race horses were featured on the front…