Carl Howard had owned claimers and regional horses - successfully - in Ohio for well over a decade, but his wife Rocchina had to go to her Gynecologist once a year and listen to how he owned some Grand Circuit-types with Ron Burke. Rocchina admittedly nagged her husband for years, to get them in with The Burke Brigade, and upon hearing the story, Mark Weaver squeezed them in. Now, the retired restaurateur and his wife couldn’t be happier. By Dan Fisher.
