The 11,000 win club and the almost unparalleled greatness of Wally Hennessey

[Fuguzzi]

                                                STARTS         WINS
Dave Magee                              70,919         11,869
George Napolitano                     56,074         11,780
George Brennan                        69,913         11,610
Wally Hennessey                       45,505         11,509        Only 45,000 drives    Remarkable - career 1 out of 4
Billy Parker Jr,                           59,033         11,315


Note - Dave Palone                    79,260         20,460       Career 1 out 4

Bruce Ranger and Jason Bartlett are very close to 1 out of 4 career also. Both over 10,000 wins


I love stats

[Balmoral buzz]

The 1 out of 4 drivers, two of them are pompano special. Home of fish man and juice flowing like a river. The other palone raced against P drivers most of his career.

[Fuguzzi]

Is there a driver, trainer, owner, horse or anyone or anything else about the sport you actually like?

[The Thorn]

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[Fuguzzi]

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[rainman2]

                                                STARTS         WINS
Dave Magee                              70,919         11,869
George Napolitano                     56,074         11,780
George Brennan                        69,913         11,610
Wally Hennessey                       45,505         11,509        Only 45,000 drives    Remarkable - career 1 out of 4
Billy Parker Jr,                           59,033         11,315


Note - Dave Palone                    79,260         20,460       Career 1 out 4

Bruce Ranger and Jason Bartlett are very close to 1 out of 4 career also. Both over 10,000 wins


I love stats

Take away the last 20+ years for Wally and Bruce, where would they be on this list? As far as Bartlett, maybe he lucked into things at Yonkers as a few name drivers failed at Yonkers with high end stock!

[Assassinator]

Except for 10+ years when Sears and D Miller drove full time at the Meadows he still won the driving title every year...and the year the snowstorm didn't let Tetrick, and Gingras make it to Woodbine for the Breeders Crown Palone picked up drives every race and was easily the best driver there that night. No The Meadows isn't as competitive and the top 3-5 tracks but in his prime Dave drove as well as any around then...he just wasn't a cash whore chasing drives all over because his family became more important.

[rainman2]

Except for 10+ years when Sears and D Miller drove full time at the Meadows he still won the driving title every year...and the year the snowstorm didn't let Tetrick, and Gingras make it to Woodbine for the Breeders Crown Palone picked up drives every race and was easily the best driver there that night. No The Meadows isn't as competitive and the top 3-5 tracks but in his prime Dave drove as well as any around then...he just wasn't a cash whore chasing drives all over because his family became more important.

Give Bruce, Wally, and G Nap credit!  They stayed warm for many winters, making a decent buck driving and not freezing their asses off like many others in the business!!

[Fuguzzi]

How about this perspective. With Bruce and Wally driving at the same track for more than a decade, they have each managed to win 1 out of 4 career and Georgie Nap, while more "destructive" to a horse, isn't far behind at like 1 out 5.5 career

[Fuguzzi]

Pretty sure Wally won all 7 NYSS events one night at Buffalo in the early 90s. Very rare feat.

Also entrusted to be the primary driver of one of the all time great Standardbreds to wear a bridle - Moni Maker

[Superfecta]

                                               
I love stats

Any “Red Man” stats ? He has to be close to that 1 out of 4 percentile.

[Fuguzzi]

Any “Red Man” stats ? He has to be close to that 1 out of 4 percentile.

Carmine retired with about 7500 career wins. I cant find his lifetime number of drives but I once saw it was over 45000 so he prolly wenty 1 for 6 life time ballpark.  He used to drive for us and was a real prick.  Unfriendly guy.. Drivers used to say how he would hang out in the locker room after the races were over and steal gloves, socks and whips.

[Superfecta]

Carmine retired with about 7500 career wins. I cant find his lifetime number of drives but I once saw it was over 45000 so he prolly wenty 1 for 6 life time ballpark.  He used to drive for us and was a real prick.  Unfriendly guy.. Drivers used to say how he would hang out in the locker room after the races were over and steal gloves, socks and whips.

That sounds like sour grapes from jealous drivers.

[dougie]

I never saw "Wally World" race outside Florida, but he is a great driver. We lived down there over 30 years before retiring to Maine, and went to Pompano a couple of times a week. Wally, Kevin Wallis, Bruce Ranger, Kelly Shepperd, etc. were fixtures there. In those mid-80's through about 2000, we had a pretty decent deriving colony. My two favorite trainers there were Jake Huff and Peter Blood. I also enjoyed when Tom Harmer trained/drove there.

[theokodjak26]

Carmine, the red man, was known to be the cheapest sob that ever sat in a sulky. Believe it or not it wasn’t sour grapes.