Coleman, Moreau finalists for O’Brien Award for trainer of the year
TORONTO — Once again, Casie Coleman and Richard Moreau will battle for the O’Brien award as Canadian harness-racing’s top trainer.
Coleman and Moreau are both five-time winners of the honour. This year’s recipient will be named Feb. 2 at the O’Brien Awards gala in Mississauga, Ont.
Coleman, a resident of Cambridge, Ont., enjoyed a solid 2018 campaign. She trained 43 winners, and her horses overall have earned $3.1 million thus far. Her stable includes McWicked, a finalist in the older pacing horse category, and Stag Party, who’s nominated as the top two-year-old pacing colt.
McWicked won 12 races this year and earned over $1.6 million. Among the seven-year-old’s victories were the Canadian Pacing Derby and the elimination and final of the Ben Franklin.