Just like the show he’s named after, “Leave it To Beaver,” Geeze Wally is a classic. The now 14-year-old former Thoroughbred racehorse is a fixture at Horseshoe Indianapolis Racing & Casino in Shelbyville, Ind., and has found new life after racing. He currently serves as a pony horse year round and has also ventured outside the grounds, fulfilling other roles along the way.
Geeze Wally was a regular racehorse and never ran in stakes action or for high purse money during his career. The Florida-bred gelding began racing at three at Oaklawn in Arkansas and Remington Park in Oklahoma before venturing to Indiana in 2015. Later that year he was given to trainer Chaz Rechy and became part of her stable in 2016, winning his second start in claiming action as a 5-year-old for his new connections. The son of With Distinction went on to win two more races before retiring in 2018 with a little more than $50,000 on his card.
“He’s just been a great horse, a horse nobody wanted,” said Rechy, who oversees a small stable of six racehorses at Horseshoe Indianapolis. “They gave him to me, and he still makes money now. He was a quiet laid back horse, and he has big knees, but they never seem to bother him. They said he was hard to deal with, but I never had any trouble with him. I used to gallop him in the mornings.”…