Several years ago, Chris Coyle was raising a young female trotter for Sarah and John Swart Jr. at his Olive Branch Farm. Coyle told them more than once they had a nice-looking filly and he had high hopes for her.
John, who turned 96 in May, used to own Windswept Farm in Virginia, not far from where the couple resides across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., and “Windswept” is frequently included in the names of the couple’s horses.
The nice-looking filly was christened Pride Of Windswept.
It turned out to be an inspired choice.
Pride Of Windswept, now three, has won 13 of 15 career races and never finished worse than second on her way to banking $134,975.