(Iron Horse Photo: Driver Scott Coulter (shown winning an Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots event with two-year-old pacing colt Gerries Sport last September) said he owes his career start to a trotter named The Rogue)
Sometimes a driver needs that one horse to kick-start his career. For driver Scott Coulter of Brantford, ON, that horse came along in 1995 when he was 25 and in his first year in the sulky.
“His name was The Rogue. That horse really gave me the confidence to do some thing on the racetrack that maybe I shouldn’t have had the confidence to do,” Coulter said of the son of Balanced Image out of Brilliant Glow bred by the late Hall of Famer Bill Wellwood.
Coulter, a career winner of more than 4,300 races and purses of nearly $29 million, earned just shy of $30,000 in his first year as a pro driver. The Rogue helped him earn about a quarter of that total in a year in which Coulter won 16 races in 134 starts. The Rogue was four that year, but it was also his first year at the races. The Rogue raced through age 10, starting 134 times with 18 wins, earnings of more than $75,000 and a mark of 1:59 taken at age five.
“He was just a great horse and I loved him for what he let me do with him,” Coulter said.
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