Windy City Pace

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The Windy City Pace was a harness race for 3-year-old Standardbred pacing horses. It had been run annually from 1983 to 2015 at Maywood Park in Melrose Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

The race was originally run during Maywood's spring meet, but since 1991 the race was run during the fall meet. In past years, elimination heats were required to determine the finalists for the main race. The race was the top race of a program that also features Maywood's other top stakes, the Abe Lincoln, the Galt, and the Cinderella.

Among the notable runnings of the Windy City was the 1987 race, where Bomb Rickles won the final at odds of 190-1.

In 2015 the purse was $180,000,[1] Maywood park closed that year.

Windy City Pace winners[]

Year
 Winner
 Driver
 Time
1983 Trim the Tree Dick Macomber 1:57 1/5
1984 Carl's Bird 1:56 3/5
1985 Pinocchio Neal Shapiro 1:56 0/0
1986 Incredible Finale Tom Harmer 1:53 3/5
1987 Bomb Rickles Neal Shapiro 1:56 2/5
1988 Wealthy Skipper Walter Paisley 1:55 0/0
1989 Just the Ticket Lavern Hostetler 1:56 1/5
1990 Jake and Elwood Hervé Filion 1:57 2/5
1991 Precious Bunny 1:57 0/0
1992 William Fahy 1:55 0/0
1993 Jack Moiseyev 1:54 2/5
1994 Pacific Rocket Jack Moiseyev 1:53 0/0
1995 Village Connection 1:53 4/5
1996 Oye Vay 1:54 1/5
1997 Arturo Dave Palone 1:54 2/5
1998 Take Down the Flag 1:53 3/5
1999 Looking for Art Eric Ledford 1:54 2/5
2000 Camotion Dale Hiteman 1:51 4/5
2001 Rattle & Rock Ryan Anderson 1:51 4/5
2002 Three Olives John Campbell 1:52 4/5
2003 Allamerican Captor 1:52 2/5
2004 Western Terror Brian Sears 1:53 4/5
2005 Thin Blue Line Michael Oosting 1:52 3/5
2006 Jereme's Jet Dave Magee 1:52 2/5
2007 Booze Cruzin Sam Widger 1:51 3/5
2008 Shadow Play David Miller 1:50 4/5
2009 In Over My Head Dale Hiteman 1:52 2/5
2010 Aracache Hanover Doug McNair 1:51 4/5
2011 Betterthancheddar George Brennan 1:52 2/5
2012 Pet Rock Doug McNair 1:51 4/5
2013 Word Power Scott Zeron 1:51 4/5
2014 Big Boy Dreams Tim Tetrick 1:51 0/0

References[]

  1. ^ "Balmoral/Maywood announce 2015 stakes". HarnessRacing.com. February 10, 2015. Retrieved Jul 18, 2021.
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