He quickly became no stranger to the winner’s circle as Ranger now has 9,430 trips to victory lane, and has earned over $39 million in purses. 365 UDR.Īn energetic 61-years-young, Ranger won his first race in 1979, and the talented reinsman had racked up 357 wins by the end of the three years that followed. This season he has a total of 65 wins and a. Heath Campbell is second with seven trips to the winners circle, with Dan Deslandes in the third spot with six wins.īorn in Portland, Maine, Ranger is now on the top of the leader board at Bangor with 14 wins, Cumberland with 13, and Plainridge with 36 victories. 415 UDR over the first five race cards of the fledgling meet.
BRUCE RANGER HARNESS DRIVER KILLED DRIVERS
Sarah’s Lilly is trained by Benson Merrill for owner/breeder Moo Coo Inc./Irwin Kaplan, and now has 4 wins, 2 seconds, 1 third in 12 seasonal outings, and has picked up nearly $10,000 in just the last four weeks.īut then Ranger racked up wins in the 3 rd, 6 th and 9 th races on the Tuesday card, placing him comfortably on top of the Cumberland drivers colony with 13 victories and a whopping. The Maine icon’s day started with guiding the 5-year-old daughter of He’s Gorgeous to a wire-to-wire 1:56 victory in the $6,000 Winners Over FM class. “I do recall Ranger being the top reinsman at Plainridge, Rockingham and Pompano in the year 2000, but never at all three New England tracks simultaneously.” “This has never happened before, even in the old Bay State Raceway era,” noted long-time Maine presiding judge Charles Malia. But the fact the her regular driver Bruce Ranger is now leading all drivers at all three commercial New England harness tracks, could be somewhat of a unique occurrence. That, in and of itself, is not necessarily headline news. – by Chris Tully for First Tracks CumberlandĬUMBERLAND, ME – In yesterday’s opener at Cumberland, Sarah’s Lilly had a repeat performance, taking the top fillies & mares class on back-to-back Tuesdays.
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