JULIE WALKER
Trainer/Driver/Owner/Breeder
Walker Racing Stable fearless leader Julie has devoted her whole life caring about horses. At a very young age she was send on the grand circuit trail with some of her father's top perfomers. The experience she reveiced from her family compares to none.
Over the last few years Julie has become a force in the Ontario Sire Stakes program. Profound Paragon and At Will both won their grassroot championship. Massive Muscle, Rosberg, Rubber Duck, Yen, Lucy Who also contributed to Julie's hardware collections.
PAUL WALKER
Trainer/Driver/Owner/Breeder
While still training a stable of his own, Paul, Julie's father is a big asset in the stable's success. Always ready to help with everything and always a phone call away. Paul and Brenda spend the winter training their young ones in Hawkinsville, Georgia to return to their hometown of Owen Sound where they race from at various tracks of Ontario for the summer. They have considerably downside their stable in the last few years to simply stay active while still enjoying the business.
Paul has a successful career of his own. Carrying an Udrs of .340 over a period of 50 years, bankrolling over an 700 wins and $10 millions as a trainer. Some of his best horses came from long time owner and friend Dave Grant from Oaklea Farm in Oaklea Julian and Oaklea Blue Jay along with other of the likes of Lou Macs Review, Mombasa, homebreds AJ Speed and current star Pemberton just to name a few.
BRENDA WALKER
Owner/Breeder
Brenda, Julie's mother, might just be the most important piece of the equation. While helping in the barn on a daily basis, she takes most of the important executive decisions on the business side of things. She makes sure everyone is looked after and that we can actually make a living doing what we love in training horses. A former director of OHHA, Brenda has also served as an Ontario Racing Commissioner from 2003 to 2016.
LARRY WALKER
Owner
During his driving career Larry Walker accumulated 2,394 wins and steered his drives to $21,116,465 in purse earnings from 16,925 starts. Born in Owen Sound, Ont., he won his first race at Mohawk Raceway in 1963 and later earned a reputation as a trotting specialist. Some of his top stakes victories included the 1980 Maple Leaf Trot with Lindys Crown, 1986 Canadian Pacing Derby behind Witsends Gypsy in a world record time, the 1986 Kentucky Filly Futurity driving Armbro Ermine, and the 1986 Labatts Invitational with Next Knight Out. On the training side he accumulated over 800 wins and near $10 millions. His success during 1986 propelled Walker to the title of CTA Horseman of the Year. Now enjoying pre-retirement Larry comes in everyday and land us his precious experience in developping our young horses.
JEAN-BERNARD "BERT" RENAUD
Driver
Emerging from a little island in the middle of the St-Lawrence gulf, the Magdalen Islands, Bert grew up racing horses on the fair circuits back home. He then moved to Trois-Rivieres for school and end up finding himself in the barn of Richard Moreau as a groom, and then as an assistant-trainer to finally meet the love of his life Julie. Julie had already a barn of herself and the two of them end up putting their skills together to run their own stable. What started with of few horses of their own turned into a 30 horses public stable, mostly focus on developping young horses.
SHAYNA TOLL
Trainer/Owner/Caretaker
Shayna has the whole harness racing backgroud as well being the daughter of trainer Heather Toll and Western Fair manager Greg Blanchard. She has been working with us for 4 years while going to school.
ERIN MCCARDLE
Owner/Breeder/Caretaker
Erin came from PEI to go to the University if Guelph to get a degree in agriculture. While working in her field she also comes in everytime she can to help us. She also own a few horses
KATHY VERBEEK
Caretaker
Kathy is Julie's aunt. She recently retired and wants to stay active. There is always room for an extra set of hands. Her helps is greatly appreciated even if she drives us all crazy.
STEVE FIDLIN
Caretaker
Steve has been involve with horses for a long time, taking care of good horses like Big Jim. He's been a great help since moving to the new facility in Rockwood.
CHRIS MUNROE
Caretaker
Chris enjoys pitching in and give the stable a hand when he can. Despite having a regular job, he is always willing to come in on weekend, his days off and at the racetrack on race night. Like everyone here, he is more of a friend than an employee. His help is always appreciated
STEVE DURAND
Farrier
LIZ SHILAND
Veterinarian