Windy City Pace

The Windy City Pace was a harness race for 3-year-old Standardbred pacing horses. It had been run annually since 1983 at Maywood Park in Melrose Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

The race was originally run during Maywood's spring meet, but since 1991 the race has been run during the fall meet. In past years, elimination heats were required to determine the finalists for the main race. The race is the top race of a program that also features Mayood's other top stakes, the Abe Lincoln], the Galt, and the Cinderella.

Among the notable runnings of the Windy City was the 1987 race, where Bomb Rickles won the final at odds of 190-1.

Windy City Pace winners

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
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