Bangor, ME – Skyway Freakshow continued to flaunt an apparent infinite limit to her seasonal prodigiousness, effortlessly waltzing to the 16th win of her 2026 campaign during a breezy, late-season appearance at Bangor Raceway on Wednesday (Oct. 28).
Breaking conservatively from the gate, driver McGwire Sowers was content to ping the pylons with his win-loving lass while Polyester (driven by Aaron Hall) and Mrs Foxy Roxy (Kevin Switzer Jr.) duked it out through a torrid :28 opening quarter.
With early supremacy eventually established by Polyester, Skyway Freakshow then fired a first-over salvo off the three-eighths bend. Grinding her way through dogged pursuit, she confidently gained the lead by the seven-eighths-mile marker before confidently striding to an in-hand, four-length margin at the wire, timed in a capably comfortable 1:58.3.
Wednesday’s epic elevated Skyway Freakshow into a fifth-place tie for winningest horse in North America while cementing her current status as the second-winningest mare on the continent this season.
The iron-sided, 4-year-old daughter of Freaky Feet Pete, who is co-owned by Sowers along with his wife Autym (who handles the conditioning duties), elevated her seasonal bankroll to $59,444 with the victory while boosting her imposing on-the-board ratio to 31 out of 44 starts.
The win was one of two on the program for the Sowers consortium, which also scored with a newcomer to its roster, Charly Blue (2:03.3, $18.80), who made his first state-of-Maine start a winning one after invading in from owner Robin Mangiardi’s Saratoga-based stable.
Autumn harness racing at Bangor Raceway will continue on a three-day per week schedule through Nov. 7 with post times on Wednesday set for 2:30 p.m. (EDT) while the Saturday and Sunday matinees will continue to step to the gate at 11:45 a.m.
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