After two weeks of preliminary races, the field for the Sid Hansen Memorial is set. The $3,500 event is the fifth race on the Friday evening card at Bangor Raceway. While the first four legs produced four different winners, no horse has been more impressive heading into the final than Jigtime Silencer.

Owned, trained and driven by veteran horsemen Steve Mahar, Jigtime Silencer is one of those horses that won a leg during preliminary round action. Last week he cruised to a wire-to-wire victory over heavily favored Ebsen Hanover, who had won a leg the week before. However, the more impressive fact is that Jigtime Silencer followed up his Friday win, a 1:59.3 effort, with another sub-two minute effort less than forty-eight hours later. His 1:58.3 win Sunday afternoon came in the first leg of the Clayton Dickison Memorial, and established a lifetime mark for the four-year-old pacer. Entering this weekend's action, he has won four of his last five starts.

Yet no horse has won more than one race thus far in the Sid Hansen Memorial, and the field also includes three other horses that notched victories over the last two weeks. Kalvin Clein, owned and trained by Frank Hiscock, enters the final after winning last week. Bill Varney of Bangor owns Whata Big Ticket, a winner in the first week of the series. Ebsen Hanover, owned by Reginald Dugay of Winslow, notched a first and a second in the elimination legs. The balance of the field is comprised of Somerset Mega Colt, owned by Elmer Johnson of Hudson; R Little Peter, owned by Earland Webb of Windsor; and Charbet Charlie, owned by Ken Smith of Mars Hill.

Sunday afternoon Bangor hosts second round action in the Clayton Dickison Memorial Series, which drew enough interest last week to fill three divisions. Post time at Bangor is at 7:30 P.M. on Friday and Saturday and is at 1:30 on Sunday afternoon.

Due to the running of the Belmont Stakes, Scarborough Downs will go to post at 2:30 P.M. this Saturday. The featured eighth race of the Saturday card is a $2,800 conditioned event in which six of the seven pacers have recorded sub-two minute victories on half mile tracks already this season. The field includes Baxter, owned by Diann Perkins of Cornish; the Alexander Stable's Manchievous; Un-real Desire, owned by Kevin McDonald of Scarborough; Just For Play, owned by Donna Fenderson of Cumberland; Perfect Dreamer, owned by Gaetan Cloutier and Mary Jane Parker of Leeds; Reggie Dugay's Black Tie Only, and Morty, owned by Sonia Bartlett of Windsor.

Post time at Scarborough Downs 7:00 P.M. Friday evening, and at 3:30 P.M. on Sunday.

Beyond the borders of Maine, Valerie Grondin more than held her own, as she finished third in the North American Women's Driving Challenge. The event, which was held last Saturday at Georgian Downs in Ontario, raised more than $20,000 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Valerie tallied 14 points on the evening, trailing only the winner, Terry Millhoan of Ohio, and Elisabeth Jansen from Ontario… This coming Saturday, a pair of Maine owned three-year-olds will compete in the $25,000 final of the Mountain Skipper Pacing Series at New Hampshire's Rockingham Park. Due Damage, owned by F. Roderick Stevens of Skowhegan and Augusta's John Loiko, drew the rail in the event. All American Reagan, owned by the Maine Prime Time Stable of Monmouth, will start from post position four. Gary Mosher trains both colts… Best After Midnite, who is partially owned by Scott Dillon of Anson, passed a milestone Tuesday at Plainridge Racecourse in Massachusetts. The veteran pacer eclipsed the $300,000 mark in lifetime earnings when he won the feature event of the week for the fifth time this season. Last season, the New England Harness Writers Association named Best After Midnite the New England Pacer of the Year.