Rambling Willie

Rambling Willie

Rambling Willie (April 18, 1970 - August 24, 1995) was a harness racing horse, more specifically a bay pacing gelding sired by Rambling Fury and out of Meadow Belle by Meadow Gold. He was trained and driven by Bob Farrington.

Rambling Willie was born on a farm in Monroeville, Indiana.

He won 128 races in 304 starts, both records and won the U. S. Pacing Championship in 1976. At the 1975 Canadian Pacing Derby he tied for first in a dead heat with Pickwick Baron, and won outright in 1976 and 1977, setting a best time for the mile of 1:54.3.

Rambling Willie was put down in 1995 and was buried in the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky.

Awards and recognition

He was voted North American aged pacer of the year in 1975, 1976, and 1977, and was retired in 1983 as the leading standardbred money winner of all time, earning over $2 million. He was inducted into the Indiana Standardbred Hall of Fame in 2003.

A biography of the horse was published: "Rambling Willie: The Horse that God Loved!" (ISBN 0-910119-42-2).

External links

* [http://www.kyhorsepark.com/khp/champions/willie.asp Kentucky Horse Park biography]
* [http://www.hoosierhoofprints.com/Indiana_Hall_of_Fame/ISHF_Members/2003_Rambling_Willie.htm Biography] , from an Indiana harness racing website


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