With the date of the 2023 Pepsi North America Cup less than two months away, Trot Insider will profile some of the race's top contenders as horses ready to compete for one of Canadian harness racing's biggest prizes.
One of the most decorated pacers to come out of the Ontario Sires Stakes program, world record holder and multiple award winner Boulder Creek has passed away at the age of 23.
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Speedy stakes winning trotter Wings Of Royalty has been retired by his connections and will shift activity to the stud barn for the 2022 breeding season.
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.