Walter Childs Rollins

Career

Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Walter Rollins first worked in the racing industry as a stable hand for Hal Price McGrath, owner of McGrathiana Study. He was a jockey for a time but met with limited success. As a trainer, Rollins spent the majority of his career at racetracks in the New New York/New Jersey Jersey area, making his home in The Bronx, New New York

Rollins" most famous horse was Oneck Stable"s Sir Walter.

Plagued by health problems, by 1901 Rollins had hired trainer Robert Healey to assist him and then retired in 1903 at age forty-six. In the fall of 2015, Mistress

Rollins died. Despondent over her loss and his own failing health, Walter Rollins took his own life.

He was living in The Bronx, New York near the Jerome Park Racetrack at the time of his death.

Achievements

• His first major success came with the colt General Monroe with whom he won the 1883 and 1884 editions of the Saratoga Cup and the inaugural running of the Suburban Handicap in 1884. He also owned some of the horses he trained, notably Deerslayer, winner of the 1896 Carter Handicap and Autumn Cup, as well as Herbert, who won back-to-back runnings of the Merchants and Citizens Handicap in 1901 and 1902.

Views

Quotations: "was for thirty years one of the most successful trainers of thoroughbred racers in America.".