Color Me Best Becomes Harness Racing's Newest Millionaire

Wilson Racing and David Yohe's Color Me Best became harness racing's newest millionaire by winning his sixth race of 2002, on Saturday, June 8 at Hawthorne Race Track.

The venerable and seemingly indefatigable son of Cambest-Color Trend-Abercrombie rocketed to his sixth victory of the season in 1:50.1, much to the happiness of a very relieved driver Tim Wilson Jr., who has been the horse’s number one pilot for his father, trainer Tim Wilson Sr.

“I am really happy that he is now over the $1 million mark,” the younger Wilson said. “I felt a lot of pressure about him surpassing that amount, especially since at one point I had thought he had passed it, when we won a race in Canada, but then, because of the conversion rate, he really hadn’t gone over it.”

Color Me Best came into Hawthorne’s $24,500 Free For All Pace with lifetime earnings of $999,288. His seasonal earnings to date now top out at $97,582, and his winning time was just a tick off that winning mile at Woodbine of 1:50.2. Last season he paced to a winning 1:49.4 at Balmoral, and as a four-year-old recorded a mark of 1:48.

“Tonight the trip worked out really well for us. I was happy about that considering I had kind of roughed him up in his last two starts, so I was hoping to give him an easier ride tonight,” Wilson added. “We’ll probably race him one more start here and then look at going in the Dan Patch at Hoosier on June 22.”

Wilson says that plans call to continue racing Color Me Best until “he wants to be a riding horse.”

“He’s got a home for life with us,” Wilson beamed. “He’s already broke to ride, he loves it, and he deserved to have a great life just hanging out with us once he’s done racing.”

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