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executive vice president of the National Steeplechase Association. “And it came out in the greatest of ways.”
Walsh, born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1906, was the first of his family to come to the United States. When he arrived in 1925, he had not yet committed himself to a lifetime with horses. “I think he came with the intention of saying, ‘I’m never going to look at another horse,’ but, of course, the first thing he did when he got here was work with horses,” Colgan said.
Walsh began with show horses, then worked with jumpers and hunters before training his first steeplechase winner in 1941.
He would train 28 steeplechase stakes winners and three added-money winners on the flat. Walsh won consecutive steeplechase training titles from 1953-55, and another in 1960, and he still ranks seventh among all-time leading money-winning steeplechase trainers with earnings of just under $2 million.
But he never would have
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