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AUGUSTA — Augusta native Jason Bartlett was inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame on on June 3, becoming one of the only harness racing inductees, according to the Maine Department of Fisheries and Inland Wildlife.
Bartlett, at the time a 17-year-old basketball player, launched his career at the Topsham Fair track in 1998.
“Twenty years of hard work and thousands of races later…Bartlett is considered one of the top harness racing drivers in the U.S., with more than 7,000 career wins and $95 million in purse earnings,” the department said.
Now a resident of Goshen, N.Y., Bartlett is a top driver at Yonkers Raceway, one of the country’s premier harness racing tracks, located just outside New York City. Over the course of his 10-year span at Yonkers, he’s been named driver of the year seven times and earned the Rising Star of the Year award from the Harness Writer’s Association in 2008
For the first half of 2018, the 37-year-old was the top earning driver in the U.S., with 455 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-place finishes out of 902 races.
