| Rambling Willie | |
|---|---|
| Breed | Standardbred |
| Sire | Rambling Fury |
| Grandsire | Ensign Lad |
| Dam | Meadow Belle |
| Damsire | Meadow Gold |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 1970 |
| Died | 1995 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Owner | 1) Farrington Stable Inc. 2) Vivian Farrington & Paul Seibert |
| Trainer | Robert Farrington |
| Record | 305: 128-69-43 |
| Earnings | $2,038,219 |
| Major wins | |
| General Mad Anthony Stake (1975, 1977) Canadian Pacing Derby (1975, 1976, 1977) U.S. Grand Prix FFA (1975, 1977) Paul Wixom FFA (1975, 1978) U.S. Pacing Championship (1976) Cornell Memorial Pace (1977, 1979) Governor Driscoll Pace (1977) American Pacing Classic (1978) Suburban Downs Derby (1980) | |
| Awards | |
| North American Champion Aged Pacer (1975, 1976, 1977) | |
| Honors | |
| United States Harness Racing Hall of Fame (1997) Indiana Standardbred Hall of Fame (2003) | |
| Last updated on October 20, 2016 | |
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.
Rambling Willie was born on a farm in Monroeville, Indiana.
He did not race at age two and as three-year-old was purchased by driver/trainer Robert Farrington for $15,000 who later gifted 50% of the horse to his wife Vivian and sold the other half to Paul Siebert.[1]
He won 128 races in 305 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, a world record at the time.
Rambling Willie was "put down" in 1995 because of laminitis (an often fatal hoof disease) and was buried in the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky where he had resided, on permanent exhibition, in the Park's "Hall of Champions", representing the Standardbred breed.