Stanley Dancer, 38, is a big man around the East's big-city harness tracks. For three out of the past four years, Trainer-Driver Dancer has been the sport's No. 1 money winner; in 1964, he became the first ever to win more than $1,000,000 in a single season.
But to folks around the back-country "grand circuit," where sulky racing got its start, Dancer still has a big one to go.
"Shucks," they say, "that man has never won the Hambletonian." Last week in Du Quoin, Ill., Stan failed again to win trotting's most prestigious race. Guess who beat him? His wife.
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