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As mentioned in the past, my first REAL visit to see harness racing was August 22, 1959. I was barely 16 years old and was corralled there from a bowling alley in Chicago after winning a “pot game” at the Bryn Mawr Bowl and winning $15. After that match, a gentleman approached me and offered
It’s almost 65 years since my first writing about harness racing appeared in The Horseman and Fair World. That’s 65 years of witnessing the great, the not-so-great, the incredible, the not-so-incredible, the expected and the unexpected accomplishments of our great breed. From Su Mac Lad winning on August 22, 1959, in a $3,000 AA-A Class
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