Howard Biesinger was born and grew up in Hamilton, Ohio, not far from the side of the little brown jaw. The Halt-A-Fleamed driver is the third generation of Biesingers and Mike Harnes racing a profession. Well, it's been a little longer than I care to think about, but my father raised horses in a hobby fashion when I was a kid and my grandfather before he races horses in a hobby fashion. That's before the pair of mutual tracks, of course, and just county fair racing mostly. So I started in as a hobby too, but it just turned into a full-time business. Biesinger began driving in the early 1950s, and since then is one just about every major harness race, putting the prestigious Hamiltonian three times. He admits he has had to adapt his driving styles to keep up with the more aggressive younger drivers. But Biesinger argues that his generation produced better horsemen. Well, I really don't think that we have a percent of horsemen are really as good now as they were in the older days if you know what I mean. There wasn't any horsemen, but there was just a handful of top horsemen had about all the top horses 40 years ago. Now then you see some top horses come out of any stable. I guess it's because of the bread better and they're easier to train and easier to balance up. Biesinger let her in basketball and baseball before becoming a horseman, and his natural athletic ability also is reflected in the fact that he enjoys bulldogging steers and calf roping at his Florida farm. This is John Henderson reporting.