While many of the top two-year-olds in the sport battled at The Red Mile on Saturday in the Bluegrass Series, Sportswriter was chillin’ at his pad at the Classy Lane Stables
Training Centre for trainer Casie Coleman who is ready to send her star student back to work.
Sportswriter, who last saw action in the Champlain Stakes at Mohawk Racetrack on September 12, is scheduled to make his way back to the Campbellville oval in preparation for the Breeders Crown.
“He trained in 1:58 on Friday and trained very, very good,” said Coleman. “I’m going to qualify him on Friday at Mohawk and then he has the Breeders Crown elim and hopefully the final. We’ll shoot for a mile in 1:55 or so, depending on the weather and what not.”
“He’s been perfect, couldn’t be any better,” she added. “I think he’s grown a little bit, I know he hasn’t had that much time off but he definitely has grown a little bit. He seems like he could use his hopples out a little bit, but I don’t want to change anything before the Breeders Crown.”
The hulking son of Artsplace-Precious Beauty turned in a jaw-dropping effort when he captured the $1 million final of the Metro Pace in a World Record clocking of 1:49.2 on September 5, and the victory has helped his rookie bankroll soar to $685,196 for the West Wins Stables (Coleman, Zoltan Kovacs and Ross Warriner) and partner Steve Calhoun.
“He’s calm and cool, you’d swear he was a five-year-old,” added Coleman. “He’s the perfect gentleman, that’s for sure. He thinks he’s an old racehorse, he doesn’t know he’s a two-year-old colt.”