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Bill O'Donnell won the driving title, his third in four years. The next year, he became harness racing's first driver to eclipse $10 million in earnings in a single year. O'Donnell has 5,742 lifetime victories as a driver with just under $100 million earned by the horses he has guided.
May 4, 2018 · Bill O’Donnell, who was voted into the Canadian Hall Of Fame 32 years ago and was inducted at Goshen in 1990, is alive and well and somehow he’s as relevant — or even more so — than ever before.
May 29, 2016 · O’Donnell earned nearly $100 million, won virtually all of the sport’s biggest stakes many times over and became the first driver to post a $10 million year. He still holds the record for the fastest mile in harness racing history more than two decades after he drove Cambest to a 1:46.1 time trial. It all started with Travelin Boy.
Jan 2, 1986 · En route to being named Harness Tracks of America’s “Driver of the Year” in 1984 with record setting earnings of $9,059,184 for a single season, O’Donnell confirmed himself as one of the sport’s all-time premier drivers.
May 16, 2020 · Remembering The Magic - Harness Racing Update. A conversation with Bill “The Magic Man” O’Donnell. by Murray Brown. I had a chance to speak extensively with the man that I consider, for a stretch of maybe five to eight years, to be the greatest driver that ever put on a set of colors.
Named Driver of the Year in '82 and '84, O'Donnell holds the distinction of winning the first sub-1:50 race mile - a 1:49.3 effort with Nihilator in 1984. Other horses he has piloted to great wins include Napoletano, Camtastic, Prakas and Valley Victory.
Bill O'Donnell won the driving title, his third in four years. The next year, he became harness racing's first driver to eclipse $10 million in earnings in a single year. O'Donnell has 5,742 lifetime victories as a driver with just under $100 million earned by the horses he has guided.
