2023’s Leading Money-Winning Sire in All Categories
Walner retired as a world champion with a record of nine wins in 10 starts, earnings of $567,652, a mark of 1:50.2 at three, and a Dan Patch Award as the 2016 two-year-old trotting colt of the year.
It was on Oct. 6, 2016, that Walner trotted his world-record 1:51.3 mile at The Red Mile. Wrapping up his freshman season with wins in the Breeders Crown and Kindergarten finals, the son of Chapter Seven was an overwhelming Dan Patch Award winner.
Walner returned to the races in 2017 with a 1:51.1 win in a conditioned trot on July 8 at the Meadowlands, and after a 1:50.2 win one week later in a $159,000 Stanley Dancer Memorial division at the Big M.
Dan Patch 2-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the Year in 2016 and World Champion.
At age 2
At age 3
Accomplishments as a sire
2023’s Leading Money-Winning Sire in All Categories
2023’s yearlings averaged over $121,000 in the sales ring, including 42 that sold for $100,000 or more.
Sire of 2022 Hambletonian Oaks winner Fashion Schooner 3, 1:50.1 ($687,148) and multiple Breeders Crown winners.
He is now the sire of 64 $100,000-plus winners and 88 in 1:55 or faster.
His first three crops raced in 2023 and earned over $25.8-million to lead all trotting sires.