Barton, VT – The Orleans, Vermont County Fair, the only New England fair racing venue outside Maine, hosted their annual race card in Barton on Wednesday (Sept. 4).
Trainer/driver Dustin Miller, making his Green Mountain State racing debut, brought three horses and each was a winner, earning him the Rick Flanders Memorial leading driver title and commemorative blanket. “It’s my first time here and I will be back,” said Miller, who sampled the iconic Vermont summer ice cream, a maple creamee, after accepting the winner’s blanket.
Miller trained and drove winners Angel’s Beauty, owned by Barbara Hudson of Chateaugay, NY, taking the non winners of one trot in 2:13.3 and Somebodys Me, also owned by Hudson, who won the non winners of $2,500 this year for pacers in 2:03.4 as well as the Free For All Pace with Kissapotamus in 2:01.3, owned by Donna Hansen of Afton, NY.
Vermont Lieutenant Governor David Zuckerman, a farmer from Hinesburg, was on hand to greet arriving horsemen in the backstretch. Vermont resident and award-winning taxidermist Cathy Gearwar won a non-winner’s pace with her own Trineville, fresh off a show finish in the New York Fair Finals at Goshen on September 1 and Nelson Haley drove Michael Tambollio’s Southern Winds to win a pacing event in 2:03. John Gerow got his first career win in the Free for All Trot win 2:04.3 with Lightningfast, trained and owned by Wil Dubois of Cambridge, NY.