Mark Wallis


Mark Andrew Wallis is an English greyhound trainer. He is a record eleven times UK champion Greyhound Trainer of the Year.

Profile

In 1990 Wallis joined leading trainer Linda Jones at the Imperial Kennels. The kennel gained significant success during the following 15 years.
In 2005 he became a trainer in his own right taking over the Imperial Kennels from Linda Jones. He secured the trainers title in his first year of training and won his first major competition. The kennel continued to gain success and won numerous events culminating in the 2009 English Greyhound Derby crown. A second Derby triumph ensued when he won the 2012 English Greyhound Derby with Blonde Snapper.
He currently runs out of Henlow Stadium which he joined in August 2018, from his Lakenheath Kennels. Previously he was attached to Walthamstow Stadium until it closed and then Harlow Stadium until July 2010 when he left for Yarmouth Stadium, in order for his greyhounds being schooled behind a Swaffham hare. He then joined Towcester Greyhound Stadium when it opened in 2014 and stayed there until it closed during 2018.

Awards

He has won the Greyhound Trainer of the Year a record eleven times and the Trainers Championship three times in 2006, 2010 and 2018.