Prominent Canadian trainer Joe Walls dies

Longtime Ontario trainer Joe Walls died last Sunday at age 78 after a brief illness.

Walls moved from British Columbia to Toronto in the early 1990s, before his son, Mickey, launched a highly successful career as a jockey. Joe Walls sent out three stakes winners at Woodbine during the late 1990s – the popular Seismic Report, Kidnap the Wife, and Hide the Bride, who captured the Grade 3 Royal North.

From 1976 to 2018, Walls won 419 races with 3,122 starters, including 43 stakes scores. Those runners earned approximately $8 million.

There was no service planned for Walls, who is survived by Mickey and wife Carol.