That started when I was very young again, in that Chicago Near North Side flat. We were still in a neighborhood where the ice man delivered ice for the ice boxes. And he delivered them in a wagon drawn by a horse. And my dad knew the ice man, and knew where he stabled his horses. And I’ll never forget the gentleman’s name because I, my dad would take me there too ’cause I was happy there and it was free, and the ice man would let me ride around on his horses. And ultimately, both the ice gentlemen named Mr. Rody, moved out towards Des Plaines and we then moved out towards Des Plaines, and then he introduced me, Mr. Rody, to other people who had horses and told them I loved horses and I love to ride, and so he wound up introducing me to Henry Silverman’s trainer and he had Delaney Farms, which was over near sort of the Nile’s Park Ridge area off of Golf Road, not too far. So, I used to exercise his Saddlebreds for money.
