Walter H. Case Jr. is an American

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driver from Maine.

Career

Walter Case Jr. has held several driving records, including the all-time record for most driving wins in one calendar year (1998) with 1,077. (This record was broken on November 27, 2007, by

Tim Tetrick Timothy A. Tetrick, born November 22, 1981, in Flora, Illinois, is an American Harness Racing driver. Tim started driving Standardbreds at a very young age and on November 27, 2007, broke the record of number of wins (1,077) in a single year. Ti ...

). He has won driving titles at many racetracks such as

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and Northfield Park. He was voted the Harness Tracks of America Driver of the Year in 1991, 1992, and 1998.

Domestic violence and prison term

In 2003, Walter Case Jr. was convicted of stabbing his then-estranged wife with a steak knife. He served four years of a five-year sentence at the Belmont Correctional Institution in

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.HarnessLink.com April 25, 2013 article titled "All I Really Want is a Chance"
Retrieved October 23, 2016

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Sportspeople from Lewiston, Maine {{US-horseracing-bio-stub