Marty Wollam to enter Ohio Hall of Fame
January 10, 2017,by Jay Wolf, for the Ohio Chapter USHWA
Delaware, OH — Martin “Marty” Wollam, one of the top trainers in the state of Ohio, has been elected as the newest member of the Ohio Harness Racing Hall of Fame. He was elected by a vote of the Ohio chapter of the U.S. Harness Writers Association.
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Marty Wollam has been elected as the newest member of the Ohio Harness Racing Hall of Fame.
Wollam, 67, has amassed 1,783 training wins, winning 12 Ohio Sire Stakes Championships with such standouts as Full Count, Count Me In, Doink N Doni, Contessa Leigh and Neely’s Messenger.
He also campaigned Striking Sahbra, the 2008 inductee into the Ohio Standardbred Hall of Fame, and Caviar Forthe Lady, a Pennsylvania Sire Stakes champion and winner of $567,306.
As a driver, Wollam made 1,139 trips to the winner’s circle.
A resident of Vienna, Ohio, Wollam was selected as a 2011 Wall of Fame honoree by his home track, Northfield Park.
Wollam will be honored at the Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association banquet in Worthington, Ohio, on Saturday (Jan. 21).
For more information on the OHHA banquet please visit www.ohha.com or call 800.353.6442.
- Marty Wollam and Let’s Get Started top Ohio award winners (Sunday, January 22, 2017)
As Martin “Marty” Wollam, 67, strode to the stage on Saturday (Jan. 21) at the Doubletree Hotel in Worthington, Ohio, during the Ohio Harness Horsemens Association’s annual awards banquet, it was with the energy and purpose of a man a quarter of his age for he was on a mission: to collect his hardware commemorating his induction into the Ohio Harness Racing Hall of Fame.
- Striking Sahbra was a key component to Wollam’s election to Ohio Hall of Fame (Thursday, January 26, 2017)
Still moved by his recent entrance into the Ohio Harness Racing Hall of Fame, Marty Wollam remains ever humble and continues to deflect the credit for this accolade by placing the credit upon none other than one of his charges, Striking Sahbra.