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Brendan Walsh
Record at Keeneland
Career Firsts
Starters in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes
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Year |
Horse |
Finish |
| 2025 | East Avenue | 2nd |
At Keeneland
Co-leading trainer during the 2025 Spring Meet with 10 wins. Shared the title with Brad Cox.
Won three stakes during the 2025 Spring Meet: the Stonestreet Lexington (G3) with Gosger, the Baird Doubledogdare (G3) with Gin Gin and the Bewitch (G3) Presented by Keeneland Sales with Forever After All.
Four stakes wins during the 2025 Fall Meet were the Juddmonte Spinster (G1) with Gin Gin, the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) Presented by Dixiana with Lush Lips (G1), the Jessamine (G2) Presented by Keeneland Sales with Imaginationthelady and the Rood & Riddle Dowager (G3) with Venencia (FR).
Earned first Grade 1 victory of career and first Keeneland stakes victory when Maxfield won the 2019 Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity. Maxfield was a homebred owned by Godolphin, for whom he worked prior to obtaining his trainer’s license.
Sent out Godolphin's East Avenue to win his second Claiborne Breeders' Futurity (G1) during the 2024 Fall Meet.
First Keeneland win came during the 2013 Fall Meet.
Career
North American career earnings exceed $73 million with 851 wins through Dec. 17, 2025.
Won 2019 UAE Derby (G2) with Plus Que Parfait, who became Walsh’s first Kentucky Derby (G1) starter (and finished eighth).
Won 2017 Illinois Derby (G3) with Multiplier, who became Walsh’s first Triple Crown race starter (unplaced in 2017 Preakness and Belmont).
Early successes include two horses who won stakes at Santa Anita on Breeders’ Cup weekend at Santa Anita. The first was Cary Street, who he claimed for $10,000 in February 2013 and won the 2014 Las Vegas Marathon (G2). The second was Scuba, who won the 2016 Marathon.
Click here for his Equibase career record.
Background
Raised on a small farm in Ireland that included sheep and dairy cows, Brendan learned to ride on his childhood pony. He honed his horsemanship at the Irish National Stud and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s Kildangan Stud, which led to working as an exercise rider and stable foreman for Sheikh Mohammed’s racing division in Dubai and at Arlington Park in Chicago. He then worked for 3½ years for Mark Wallace in Newmarket, England.
Brendan became an assistant to fellow Irishman Eddie Kenneally in 2007 to learn the U.S. training style prior to obtaining his trainer license in 2011.