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CUMBERLAND, ME – 86-year-old owner-trainer-driver Bob Nadeau had been winless in seven starts this season. That all changed on Saturday (June 15) at Cumberland, when the youthful octogenarian steered his own N Expense (N Xample) to victory in a $5,000 harness racing division of the Maine Amateur Driving Club. A concrete salesman by trade, the affable […]
CUMBERLAND, ME – Two of Maine harness racing’s favorite elder statesmen, 85-year-old Bob Nadeau and his trusty 14-year-old gray steed Putnams Storm (Force Of Life) made quick work of the $7,000 Frost Final at Cumberland on Friday (Dec. 22), winning the pop-up series final in 2:02.1, and putting an exclamation point on a poignant career. […]
CUMBERLAND, ME – Despite being in the twilight of their respective careers, owner-trainer-driver Bob Nadeau steered his own veteran harness racing pacer Putnam’s Storm (Force Of Life) to victory in Saturday’s (June 24) Maine Amateur Driving Club (MADC) event at Cumberland Raceway. It was the eleventh start of the season for the 14-year-old gray gelding […]
On North American tracks it’s all about speed over a mile trip, in Australia it’s a mix of both standing start and mobile features across a range of track sizes, in New Zealand it could be about an extreme two-mile contest or a grass track race featuring non-race winners and in Europe the champion trotter […]
CUMBERLAND, ME – Proving that last month’s first win of the harness racing season was no fluke, 83-year-old Bob Nadeau went three-wide down the backside to capture the $3,500 Maine Amateur Driving Club (MADC) on Saturday (Dec. 18) with his trusty steed Putnam’s Storm. A concrete salesman by trade, the veteran owner/trainer/driver has been working […]
CUMBERLAND, ME – Gray-haired Putnams Storm, a 12-year-old gelding by Force Of Life, started his harness racing journey in the province of Nova Scotia, in the Canadian Maritimes. His owner, Bob Nadeau, an 83-year-old sales rep from Maine began his quest for trotting and pacing glory a decade before the United States Trotting Association began keeping […]
