Top 3 drivers all time of Illinois harness racing

[Fuguzzi]

Tim Tetrick   Tony Morgan    then anyone you want to name

[Generation XYZ]

Perry Dailey, Tetrick. and Morgan

[Meadow Ford]

My top three to drive good gaited, good mannered, push button horses in the Sportsman's Park American National stakes.
Dave Magee
Tom Harmer
Tony Morgan
I didn't consider Tetrick, Andy Miller, or Marcus Miller because even though they were born, raised, and drove their first starts at IL. fairs, they didn't stay around long.

[Meadow Ford]

My top three to drive a year round stable of claimers at Maywood 1/2, Bal. the old 5/8, SP Park the old 5/8, Haw. the mile.
Tony Morgan
Daryl Busse
Stan Banks

[Meadow Ford]

My top Pretty Boy driver of the 1960's
Gene Vallandingham
Long blonde hair
White boots
White bell bottom driving pants
and a rich owner

[Meadow Ford]

Top trotting driver
Connel Willis
Dave Magee

[Meadow Ford]

My top three to drive a hard headed, bad acting, knee knocking, cross fireing, falling down SOB of the 1960's.
Don Busse
Harry Burright
Fast Eddie Lutes
Fast Eddie was driving just such a horse at Maywood when they crashed.
Eddie died a couple days later in the hospital.

[Meadow Ford]

My top two Second Right There drivers.
They could keep a condition horse well classified all year.
Geo Conley
Dwayne Pletcher

[Balmoral buzz]

My top three to drive a hard headed, bad acting, knee knocking, cross fireing, falling down SOB of the 1960's.
Don Busse
Harry Burright
Fast Eddie Lutes
Fast Eddie was driving just such a horse at Maywood when they crashed.
Eddie died a couple days later in the hospital.

That was Vince Tamborello who died in a crash at maywood when his head hit the concrete drainage ditch and split his helmet in half. Eddies lutes was beaten by the mob in downtown Aurora when he didn’t pay up

[Meadow Ford]

Eddie Lutes died in a car crash.

You may be thinking of Terry Towne.

[Meadow Ford]

That was Vince Tamborello who died in a crash at maywood when his head hit the concrete drainage ditch and split his helmet in half. Eddies lutes was beaten by the mob in downtown Aurora when he didn’t pay up

Yes Vince died as you say. I had just sold him a horse a few days before.
Yes Eddie was beat up and should not have been driving, but it was crash at Maywood, that put final nail in coffin.
I first met Eddie when he was  a teenager working for Lloyd Perrin. He wore a big cowboy hat. From then on I called him Tex. He had a nickname for me too.

[Bernie Madoff]

I was totally wrong.


https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/20/archives/trot-driver-dies-after-spill.html

[Meadow Ford]

I was totally wrong.


https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/20/archives/trot-driver-dies-after-spill.html

Thanks for posting!

[LUCPARK]

jim dolbee

[Meadow Ford]

Specking of the mob and Chicago drivers.
Was the Jim Wondergem case ever solved?
Was it murder, suicide, or a mob hit.
I never did hear for sure what happened,
Anybody know?