Odds On Racing - Harness Racing

Odds On Racing's

Trainer of the Month
for July 2011

Ben Wallace

Ben Wallace

Born in 1949 in Kitchner, Ontario, Ben Wallace has operated a highly successful stable in Ontario for over four decades.

He came to International prominence, however, in 1999, when he conditioned and harnessed the outstanding 3-year-old pacing colt Blissfull Hall, who was voted Horse of the Year in Canada and Pacer of the Year in the Dan Patch Award balloting. The Cambest speedball banked $1,326,819 and became just the ninth pacer in the history of the sport to win the Triple Crown.

Wallace's standout pacer Blissful Hall

In 1996 his season’s earnings passed the $1 million mark for the first time and he was voted the Ontario Jockey Club’s Trainer of the Year. He also enjoyed solid 1997 and 1998 campaigns thanks to the pacing filly Armbro Rosebud, an O’Brien Award winner in 1997 as Canada’s 2-year-old filly pacer of the year. In 2000, he conditioned the Windy City Pace winner Camotion.

In recent years the pacing gelding Zooka has been his leading charge, banking more than $100,000 in each of his five campaigns on the racetrack, while ringing up more than $1.1 million lifetime.

To date Wallaced has harnessed 1,493 winners to $28,117,244 in earnings, and as a driver, he's steered 188 winners to $927,748.