Casie Coleman is on top of the world. She’s lost over 70 pounds this past year, found new love, surpassed 50 million dollars in earnings as a trainer, and is part owner of unquestionably the best two-year-old sire on the planet.
Sportswriter (Artsplace X Precious Beauty) is the leading two-year-old sire for: North America, Australia and New Zealand. His first foal crop born in 2012 consisted of: 154 foals born in North America and another 155 foals born in the Southern Hemisphere. That kind of phenomenal fertility is practically unheard of.
As Casie trained some of these 2012 foals in Florida last winter, her daily posts on Facebook revealed how pleased she was with her Sportswriter babies.
Then when they started to qualify in 2014 and charge to the front in the Ontario Sires Stakes program she cheered from her Facebook page, “Sportswriter who woulda thought you could be even better in the sac then on the track!! Impressive big man!! Keep it going I love ya!”
What’s not to love about:
Foal Statistics (2012) for North America (as of September 2014)
154 horses born
97 Raced
37 Race Winners
45 with best time<=2:02
42 with best time<=2:00
29 with best time<=1;57
17 with best time<=1:55
3 with best time<=1:53
$1,595,990 Total Earnings
$20,727 Average Earnings Per Starter
Foal Statistics: (2012) for Australia and New Zealand (as of September 2014)
Australia’s Leading First Crop Sire 2013/2014 Season
33 Individual 2-year-old winners
13 Winning on Debut
28 Winning within their first 4 starts
73 Raced
10 In sub 2:00
Sire of Australia’s Fastest 2-year-old filly, Read About Lexy in 1:54.6
To really understand Sportswriter’s accomplishments to the fullest let’s take a look at how he compares to North America’s leading stallions.
Leading Money Winning Sires – 2 Year Old Pace (2014)
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Starters
Sire in 2014 Money
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SPORTSWRITER 77 $1,595,670
WELL SAID 53 $1,330,988
BETTORS DELIGHT 67 $1,300,572
ART MAJOR 62 $1,170,144
DRAGON AGAIN 44 $1,023,958
WESTERN IDEAL 26 $886,489
SOMEBEACHSOMEWHERE 47 $880,212
ROCK N ROLL HEAVEN 58 $876,725
AMERICAN IDEAL 50 $797,352
WESTERN TERROR 51 $797,050
ROCKIN IMAGE 58 $702,959
FEELIN FRISKIE 39 $697,194
ROCKNROLL HANOVER 63 $522,971
PANSPACIFICFLIGHT 53 $459,664
YANKEE CRUISER 24 $439,499
MCARDLE 22 $434,287
SPORTSMASTER 35 $430,636
PONDER 10 $420,635
THIRD STRAIGHT 9 $401,680
MACH THREE 39 $367,148
When asked if Sportswriter would be staying in Ontario for the 2015 breeding season, Casie said, “Yes, he will be standing stud at Tara Hills Farms again in 2015, but we may raise his service fee just a bit. We are grateful to all the folks who supported Sportswriter in his first few years, so we won’t be too hard on them when they return to breed again next year.”
Ontario has been fortunate to have world class Standardbred stallions making up the rosters of their breeding farms. With stallions like Sportswriter standing stud duty here, the tradition of quality racing in Ontario will continue.
