Dwayne Pletcher News Today

I had a good, long conversation with an old-time horseman the other day. He came from an era where drivers were trainers, carrying stopwatches in races trying to put something over on the competition by trying to get to the half in 1:03 by “clocking” in at the three-eighths pole in :47 and a piece.

John Berry has always focused on the positive. Because of his upbeat attitude, there’s little that the Chicago native, now 80-years-old, has not accomplished during his life. In fact, John has excelled at every occupation that has caught his fancy over the decades. Perhaps it was destiny, or maybe it was simply growing up in