Four-time O’Brien Award-winning trainer Casie Coleman notched the 1,500th win of her career on Friday evening at Yonkers Raceway thanks to a front-end score by the hard-knocking distaffer, Run On Luck
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The eight-year-old daughter of Northern Luck, who is owned by Casie Coleman Stables Inc, Bob Darrow and Ron Broadstone, shot to immediate command in the $23,000 conditioned event and successfully threw down splits of :27, :55.2 and 1:24.2 en route to winning the 1-1/16 affair in 2:00.2.
The 30-year-old conditioner from Cambridge, ON has conditioned winners in excess of $31 million in her career, and for each of the last seven seasons she has watched her starters stash away more than $1 million in earnings.
The 2009 campaign was her winningest (276 wins) to date, while last year proved to be her biggest year when it came to making money ($6,655,493). She made it a personal goal to send out winners in excess of $10 million in 2011 – a feat that isn’t all that far fetched considering the star power she is dealing with.
Coleman has campaigned a long list of top performers including American Ideal, Sportswriter, Moving Pictures, Lucky Man, Art Colony, Chancey Lady and two of last year’s leading ladies – O’Brien Award winners Western Silk and Idyllic.
Coleman is just the second female trainer in harness racing history to surpass 1,500 wins. Jodi Schillaci tops all women trainers with 1,721 lifetime tallies.