The Windy City Pace was a harness race for 3-year-old Standardbred pacing horses. It was run annually from 1983 to 2015 at Maywood Park in Melrose Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
The race was originally run during Maywood's spring meet but, after 1991, it was run in the fall. Elimination heats were required to determine the finalists for the main race. It was the top race of a program that also featured Maywood's other top stakes races — the Abe Lincoln, the Galt and the Cinderella.
A notable running of the Windy City was in 1987, when Bomb Rickles won the final at odds of 190-1.
In 2015 the purse was $180,000.[1] Maywood park closed that year.
Windy City Pace winners
edit| Year |
Winner |
Driver |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Trim the Tree | Dick Macomber | 1:57 1/5 |
| 1984 | Carl's Bird | Carl E. Allen | 1:56 3/5 |
| 1985 | Pinocchio | Neal Shapiro | 1:56 0/0 |
| 1986 | Incredible Finale | Tom Harmer | 1:53 3/5 |
| 1987 | Bomb Rickles | Neal Shapiro | 1:56 2/5 |
| 1988 | Wealthy Skipper | Walter Paisley | 1:55 0/0 |
| 1989 | Just the Ticket | Lavern Hostetler | 1:56 1/5 |
| 1990 | Jake and Elwood | Hervé Filion | 1:57 2/5 |
| 1991 | Precious Bunny | Jack Moiseyev | 1:57 0/0 |
| 1992 | Western Hanover | William Fahy | 1:55 0/0 |
| 1993 | Presidential Ball | Jack Moiseyev | 1:54 2/5 |
| 1994 | Pacific Rocket | Jack Moiseyev | 1:53 0/0 |
| 1995 | Village Connection | Paul MacDonell | 1:53 4/5 |
| 1996 | Oye Vay | Douglas S. Brown | 1:54 1/5 |
| 1997 | Arturo | Dave Palone | 1:54 2/5 |
| 1998 | Take Down the Flag | Paul MacDonell | 1:53 3/5 |
| 1999 | Looking for Art | Eric Ledford | 1:54 2/5 |
| 2000 | Camotion | Dale Hiteman | 1:51 4/5 |
| 2001 | Rattle & Rock | Ryan Anderson | 1:51 4/5 |
| 2002 | Three Olives | John Campbell | 1:52 4/5 |
| 2003 | Allamerican Captor | Luc Ouellette | 1:52 2/5 |
| 2004 | Western Terror | Brian Sears | 1:53 4/5 |
| 2005 | Thin Blue Line | Michael Oosting | 1:52 3/5 |
| 2006 | Jereme's Jet | Dave Magee | 1:52 2/5 |
| 2007 | Booze Cruzin | Sam Widger | 1:51 3/5 |
| 2008 | Shadow Play | David Miller | 1:50 4/5 |
| 2009 | In Over My Head | Dale Hiteman | 1:52 2/5 |
| 2010 | Aracache Hanover | Doug McNair | 1:51 4/5 |
| 2011 | Betterthancheddar | George Brennan | 1:52 2/5 |
| 2012 | Pet Rock | Doug McNair | 1:51 4/5 |
| 2013 | Word Power | Scott Zeron | 1:51 4/5 |
| 2014 | Big Boy Dreams | Tim Tetrick | 1:51 0/0 |
References
edit- ^ "Balmoral/Maywood announce 2015 stakes". HarnessRacing.com. February 10, 2015. Retrieved Jul 18, 2021.