Malek Hanover scored top honors in Scarborough’s $5,400 Free-For-All on Saturday (4/9), fresh off the heels of last week’s robust second-place finish to the upward bound Johnny Z.. So impressive was Malek Hanover’s performance that he in fact equaled the fastest clocking of the young State-of-Maine harness racing season, circumnavigating the Seaside Oval twice around in 1:55.1.

Malek Hanover, a 7-year-old son of Western Hanover, is owned by the Estate of Allison Derrah of Ontario, and was driven to victory by Rob Dinning. The win was one of two on the program for trainer Bo Sowers.

The battle for supremacy in the driver’s colony remains heated in the early portions of the Scarborough meet with 2009 leading driver Drew Campbell, and 2010 leading driver Shawn Gray, each recording driving triples on Saturday’s card.

Live harness racing returns to Scarborough Downs next weekend: Saturday at 4 pm and Sunday at 1:05 pm.