The Maine Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association (MSBOA) and Scarborough Downs will present the Maine Breeders Stakes 2-year-old Trotting and Pacing Finals on Sunday, September 11, 2011. Post time is 1:05 pm.

The event showcases the very best in young harness racehorses that are bred, stabled and trained in Maine, that have been competing throughout the fair circuit and at commercial tracks during the summer meet. The top eight in each of the four divisions (colt pace, filly pace, colt trot, filly trot), earned their berths into the finals, and now they vie for purse money of over $57,000 each. Total purses for the day are expected to exceed a quarter of a million dollars.

Sunday may well be coronation day for Pembroke Picture, a two-year-old filly who will put her undefeated 9-for-9 record on the line in the distaff trotting final. Installed as the 3-5 morning line favorite, Pembroke Picture will score from post 6 with regular driver Heath Campbell at the helm. Pembroke Picture is owned by William Varney of Bangor, Maine.

CC's Dream will look to regain the wining edge in the colt trotting final on Sunday but will have his work cut out for him from the unpopular post number 7. Owned and trained by Ronald Alexander of Auburn, Maine, this son of Muscilini has been installed as the 5-2 morning line choice with Dude Goodblood listed to drive.

Denver Cyclone, who has only tasted defeat once in his career, appears the obvious choice in the colt pacing final. Scoring from post number one, he has been labeled as the prohibitive 3-5 morning line choice with Shawn Gray listed to drive, subbing for regular pilot Wallace Watson who will sit sidelined due to injuries sustained in a raceway accident at the Skowhegan Fair. Denver Cyclone is owned by Alfred Ross of Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

In perhaps the most wide-open stakes event of the day, Magically, owned by the Ben Bill & Will Stable of Carmel, will bid to cap of a magnificent season in the filly pacing final. The six-time winner will score from post number 5 and has been tabbed as the 9-5 choice by the morning line-maker. Veteran reinsman, Gary Mosher, will team.

The afternoon wil begin with a special 10-year anniversary remembrance of September 11th, with a few words presented by Secretary of State Charlie Summers, followed by The National Anthem sung live by Windham High School Senior, Katey Leask.

The Downs Club will feature a complete lasagna dinner for $10.99 per person + tax. Reservations can be made by calling 207-883-3022

The MSBOA will also be conducting 50/50 cash raffle to raise funds for the MSBOA Scholarship Fund.

For more information on the event, please contact Susan Higgins at 207-883-4331 or log onto www.ScarboroughDowns.com