2022’s Leading Money-Winning Sire of 2YO & 3YO Trotters
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.
Walner stands at Southwind Farms for a stud fee of $40,000.
Dan Patch 2-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the Year in 2016 and World Champion.
At age 2
NYSS at Vernon and Saratoga
Kindergarten Classic at the Meadowlands
International Stallion Stake at Lexington
Breeders Crown Elim and Final at the Meadowlands
At age 3
Winner of the Stanley Dancer Memorial 3yo Open at the Meadowlands in 1:50.2
Accomplishments as a sire
2022’s Leading Money-Winning Sire of 2YO & 3YO Trotters
2022’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 37 $100,000-plus winners and 50 in 1:55 or faster.
His first two crops raced in 2022 and earned over $14.3-million to lead all trotting sires of 2 & 3 year olds.
Venerable 2,1:52-’21 (1,187,339)
King Of The North 3, 1:50.3s-‘22 ($1,166,854)
Jiggy Jog S 3, 1:50.0-‘22 ($1,122,718)
Temporal Hanover 3, 1:52.2s-‘22 ($972,166)
Special Way 2,1:52.0s-’22 ($692,775)
Fashion Schooner 3, 1:50.1-‘22 ($687,148)
Raised By Lindy 3, 1:51.1-‘22 ($653.250)
Walner Payton 2, 1:52.2-‘22 ($507,768)
Misswalner Fashion 3, 1:52.2-’22 ($432,430)
Winner’s Bet 2,1:54.1s-’22 ($343,987)