... got off to a delayed start thanks to a severe thunderstorm in the London area, the wait was well worth it to see eight top pacers go ... $283,000 purse. The London half-miler has been kind to Stormaway in the past and tonight was no different for the six-year-old son of ...
... Lucky Man and Foiled Again took their respective $25,000 Molson Pace eliminations, which were marred with an injury sustained by Maltese Artist ...
The horse racing world was saddened with the loss of a great performer when Maltese Artist suffered critical injuries
in his 2009 Molson Pace elimination.
Racing for James Koran and the Burke Stable, the richest son of Artiscape won 39 times in his brilliant career for earnings topping $2.3 million. He is one of the few horses in harness racing history to record sub-1:50 miles on all sizes of tracks, and his 1:49.4 win in Cleveland was the first sub-1:50 mile recorded on a half mile track at night.
For his grit and toughness, he was a charismatic performer and one of the new millenium’s first true superstar Free For All horses. Maltest Artist finished a close second in the 2007 Molson Pace and surely would’ve been among the favourites for this classic too. Maltese Artist may be gone but his achievements have made an indelible mark in the harness racing history books.
