Walder rides six-race winning streak into Wednesday card

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Peter Walder will enter the Wednesday card at Gulfstream on the roll of a lifetime, having won with his last six starters.

Honolulu Express began the streak with a victory last Thursday. Walder followed that up with a hat trick Friday, winning with odds-on favorites Liza Star, Florado, and Happy Champ, before continuing Saturday with comfortable wire-to-wire victories by Northern and Ludington.

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“Anybody who knows anything about racing knows claiming trainers go on streaks,” Walder said. “It’s all about the condition book sometimes, and the right races coming along for the right horses at the right times, although I’m not sure I’ve ever won six in a row before. Certainly not here. Of course, I have to thank all the owners, who let me take my time with their horses and run them where I thought they could win. It’s pretty cool, though, especially since they all won the same way, wire to wire, and all pretty impressively.”

Barring a miracle, however, Walder’s streak will have to come to an end Wednesday since he runs two horses on the card, High Heater and Surf Shack, both in the second race.

“Unless I scratch one, which at the moment I don’t plan to do, or they dead heat, the streak will come to an end,” Walder said. “Both horses are doing good right now. I wouldn’t be surprised if they ran one-two, although getting them to finish in a dead heat is probably a little too much to hope for.”