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LEXINGTON, Ky.— Odds-on favorite Whateverittakes As and 5-1 shot Special Day both vaulted off speedy early fractions and past expended rivals late to win in their respective $135,500 divisions of the Grade 3 International Stallion Stakes for 2-year-old trotting males on Thursday afternoon (Oct. 8) at The Red Mile. Entering from a narrow defeat as […]
Lexington, KY – Trotting colt Kountry Prince, a son of Walner out of Plunge Blue Chip, sold for $825,000 to Åke Svanstedt to top Monday’s (Oct. 5) record-setting opening session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale at the Fasig-Tipton Pavilion. Monday’s session concluded with 111 yearlings selling for $22.18 million, good for a record average […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – As they had been over the last several days, the atmospheric conditions in the Mid-Atlantic on Monday afternoon were still far from favorable, and the horses and harness racing drivers who won the featured races at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania used off-the-pace tactics, aided by a stretch tailwind, to gain the […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Talk about a couple in perfect harmony. Three times this year Yannick Gingras has driven the Trond Smedshammer-trained Walspea (Walner), and three times this year the pair have made it to the harness racing winner’s circle. In Friday night’s feature at The Meadowlands, the prolific pairing took the fourth and final […]
LEXINGTON, Ky.— American Power (Walner) emerged victorious from his first start since competing in the Grade 1 Hambletonian and Miss Jum Jabber returned after skipping the second leg to score in their respective $80,000 third-preliminary harness racing dashes of the Kentucky Championship Series on Monday afternoon (Aug. 31) at The Red Mile. American Power marched […]
LEXINGTON, Ky.— The Walner-Saadet filly Wall Of Fame upped her unbeaten harness racing record to six with a 1:52.4 stroll in the $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series third preliminary for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Wednesday afternoon (Aug. 26) at The Red Mile. Sent the 1-9 favorite, Wall Of Fame brushed towards the top through a :30.2 […]
LEXINGTON, Ky.— Presidente delivered on a 3-2 promise in the $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series third preliminary for 2-year-old trotting colts and geldings on Monday (Aug. 24) at The Red Mile, a day that also saw a harness racing track record equaled in a non-wagering race before the pari-mutuel card. In the Monday feature, Presidente (driven […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – The Walner colt Inexpressable seems to be peaking at an opportune time of the 2026 harness racing season, adding to his resume by winning the $300,000 Earl Beal Memorial Trot for three-year-old males on Saturday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. He lowered his mark to 1:51.1 in the game neck […]
LEXINGTON, Ky.— Another busy week of Kentucky bred action at The Red Mile attracts top-class harness racing talent into the Bluegrass State including the Walner filly Wall Of Fame, who will put her unbeaten streak on the line as the 4-5 favorite in the $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series third preliminary for 2-year-old trotting fillies on […]
LEXINGTON, Ky.— Wall Of Fame (Walner) flexed her class with a :54.2 back half to ring her undefeated record to five wins with a 1:52.2 effort in the $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series second preliminary for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Monday afternoon (Aug. 17) at The Red Mile. Driver Andy Miller glided towards the top with […]
Victorian Breeder of the Year Michael “Mick” Harvey has made a bold statement at the 2026 Nutrien Yearling Sale, securing a blueblood trotting filly for a record-breaking $250,000, the highest price ever paid for a trotting filly at auction in Australasia. The filly, a daughter of global trotting sensation Walner (USA), boasts one of the […]
The trotters took a fair share of the limelight at today’s NZB Standardbred Sales in Christchurch. The Walner – Egee Money filly presented by Yabby Dam Farms and prepared by Laura Smith topped the Sale and was purchased by Stonewall Stud for $290,000. “NZB have done a great job and Laura Smith has prepared her […]
Harrisburg, PA – Trotting filly Dance Of Victory, a daughter of Walner-She Rocks Kemp, was purchased for $250,000 by Ake Svanstedt on Tuesday to top the second yearling session of the 87th annual Standardbred Horse Sale at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show Complex. Dance Of Victory was followed on the best-selling list by three $200,000 purchases – […]
To borrow a phrase from the late, great announcer Larry Lederman, if the harness racing qualifying dash featuring trotter Quebec Hanover on Friday, March 14 at Woodbine Mohawk Park was a fight, they’d have stopped it. With a number of the familiar faces in the Preferred Trot ranks sliding into the New Holland Trotting Series, […]
Chapter Seven and his champion son Walner have outdistanced all other trotting stallions in North America for the past few years in every age group and category. Chapter Seven took out the trotting sires’ premiership in 2021 and 2002 before relinquishing the title to Walner last year. Chapter Seven looks certain to claim his third […]
Briarcliff Manor, NY — Preferred Equine Marketing’s David Reid, syndicate manager for harness racing World Champion Walner, announced that his 2025 service fee will increase to $50,000. Already the sire of six millionaires from his first three crops to race, Walner’s offspring continued to shine in 2024, including International Trot winner Jiggy Jog S ($3,100,000), Aged […]
No, not the recently crowned King Charles III, but someone far more critical to the harness racing world and Trotting breeders in Australasia. The Award-winning and exciting son of Walner in King Of The North will be boarding a flight in the USA in July heading to Llowalong Farms in northern Victoria. King Of The […]
The Walner Syndicate announced today that the 2023 stud fee for its prized stallion has been set at $40,000. The fee for syndicate members — whose tremendous support and great mares helped launch the stallion’s meteoric rise to stardom — will be $35,000. Walner stands at Southwind Farms in Pennington, N.J., with his foals eligible […]
Two of the top three-year-old harness racing trotting colts in North America this year, King Of The North and Temporal Hanover, will both be standing stud for the 2023 breeding season in North America. Both colts are sired by Walner. Walner is the leading two-year-old sire in North America. He has 65 starters in 2022 […]
Harrisburg, PA — The lone stallion share offered for trotting sire Walner in Thursday’s (Oct. 10) opening session of the Standardbred Horse Sale’s mixed sale brought the biggest price of the week, going for $750,000 to Patty Key. The previous high figure, $600,000 for filly trotter Date Night Hanover, came in Monday’s opening session of the yearling sale. […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Pretender (Muscle Hill-Maven) and Fashion Schooner (Walner-Broadway Schooner) were the winners in the first edition $275,000 finals of the New Jersey Classic for “A” level New Jersey-sired trotters Friday night (Sep. 9) at The Meadowlands. In the split for 3-year-old colts and geldings, Pretender pulled off a surprise, taking down 1-9 […]
Lexington, KY — On Monday (Aug. 28) The Red Mile will host one $80,000 third round leg of the Kentucky Championship series, one $30,000 third round leg of the Kentucky Commonwealth series and three $15,000 third round legs of the Golden Rod series for freshman filly harness racing trotters. Special Way (Walner-Special Hill) seeks the […]
Top two-year-old trotters visited Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday (Aug. 20) to attempt to punch their tickets to the finals of the Peaceful Way and William Wellwood Memorial in eliminations for each harness racing stake. The three eliminations for the Wellwood – an Open for two-year-old trotters which boasts a $640,000 purse and a free […]
Wilkes-Barre, PA — Temporal Hanover (Walner-Think Twice) got the lead prior to the opening quarter and stayed on top from there, winning Saturday’s $300,000 Earl Beal Jr. Memorial for 3-year-old male harness racing trotters by one length over Pretender in 1:53. Pour Mea Double finished third and Hambletonian champ Cool Papa Bell was fourth despite […]
