Four scores for Sowers at Topsham

Topsham, Maine … McGwire Sowers held the hot hand on a steamy late summer Sunday afternoon (August 9), scoring four driving wins over the course of Topsham Fair’s well attended  opening day harness racing card. 

Sowers flashed with flair on Sunday, teaming a pair of winners home from his wife, Autym’s, well-stocked roster, first with Smartys Filly (1:58.2, $3.20), who broke a 0-for-26 streak while cruising through a :58.1 back-half en route to a 15-1/2 length margin at the wire, and then with McLatte (2:00.3, $41.60) who rode a more pedestrian gate-to-wire path to nab her third win of the season.

Catch driving proved equally profitable for Sowers on Sunday too. He was able overcome a tempo deadening 1:03.1 opening half shrewdly thrown in by To My Credit (Alex MacDonald) to rally at the wire with the Rex Ellis trained Dusty Lane Darby (2:04, $3.80), before closing out his grand slam day with an in-hand power march behind the class-dropping Vel Trust In Time (1:56.1, $2.40), while claiming the fastest win of the day in the process. 

Racing will continue throughout the week at Topsham with free emission featured for the pre-fair card on Monday (August 10) while post time on Wednesday (August 12) will be at 1:00 pm. Wednesday is senior citizen’s day with admission for those 60 and over reduced to $5 for the day.

Post time for Thursday’s (August 13) card will be at 3:00 pm while Saturday’s (August 15) grand finale will head to post at 1:00 pm. 

Programs for the Topsham races are available on-track as well as through the Trackmaster online platform and for those not able to come to the track, wagering on the Topsham Fair, as well as hundreds of harness and thoroughbred racetracks across the world, is available on Hollywood Races at www.hollywoodraces.com.

For more information regarding the entire schedule of events for the 172nd Topsham Fair, please visit www.topshamfair.org

For complete race results, click here: US Trotting results.

by Mike Sweeney for Topsham Fair