It has taken me 60 years to write a harness racing column like this one…60 years…60 years since my first one in the Horseman and Fair World trying to do something positive for our sport.
I am THE eternal optimist. I look for the good in everything…and I am beginning to realize that is a fault in my being. Facing reality for some is very difficult and, for me, VERY difficult.
With my lifelong kidney disease, my optimism has gotten me to this point, which is probably 20 or 30 years beyond others that have faced the same journey. So many have been relegated to “greener pastures” or, more realistically, six feet UNDER greener pastures, or in urns of remembrance.
