Diamond Creek Farm has announced that the initial book for 2014 Pacer of the Year and runner-up for Horse of the Year, Sweet Lou, is now full and closed.
“We expected a great response, and that’s certainly what we got,” said Diamond Creek’s owner Adam Bowden. “It seems like this horse’s charisma equals his credentials, and his popularity on the racetrack pretty much just transferred over straight to the breeding shed.
“With the quality of the mares he’ll be bred to, his first crop of yearlings should rival those of any horse out there,” he added.
Sweet Lou retired to stud at Diamond Creek Farm of Pennsylvania after his five-year-old season with earnings of more than $3.4-million and a World Record mark of 1:47 taken on a five-eighths mile track. He is a son of Yankee Cruiser from Sweet Future, also the dam of $2.7-million winner and World Champion Bettor Sweet.
“I think that sometimes people primarily see Sweet Lou as a champion free for all pacer, which is true of course, but the fact that he was also a World Champion, Breeders Crown winner, and divisional Pacer of the Year as a two-year-old is sometimes overlooked,” Bowden said. “We think he has everything it takes to be a tremendous sire.”
The multiple World Record-holder--and first horse to ever pace six consecutive sub-1:48 winning miles--was campaigned by Burke Racing Stable LLC, Weaver Bruscemi, Lawrence Karr and Phillip Collura and trained by Ron Burke.
Breeders and fans may follow the continuing career of the horse many called “The Great White Blaze” on Twitter @greatwhiteblaze.
(Diamond Creek Farm)
Burke turned a good horse
Burke turned a good horse into a great horse!!
What a FANtastic horse he was
What a FANtastic horse he was to watch race . I hope , perhaps they might send him up to Ontario in a few years .