![]() ![]() Some day, I told her I’ll do the same for her and we can move back to Florida and I’ll follow her life,” he said emotionally. She put herself through school and gave up her career as an ultrasound tech. ![]() “My wife stuck by me and has given up her life to follow mine. There are lots of highs and lows in this game, so if you let races get to you, it will drag you down real quick, and then you can’t drive the same.” “Going up against top drivers like Tim Tetrick and David Miller, you’ve got to have tiger blood running through your veins to compete. “I just go out and race, and then turn the page real quick when it’s over, and go back into fight mode,” he describes. ![]() His success comes from a formula he follows daily. I’m not perfect now, and I still fall really short, but Jesus holds my ear and drags me down the right path.” Leading Driver Wins/UDR 2017Īt the Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, he’s won the Leading Driver-Wins title 14 times, including the last 9 years in a row at Harrah’s Philadelphia, he’s been awarded the title 8 times. Now we’re all friendly and buried the hatchet, but I hope that one day they’ll forgive me. “I went through a lot of years fighting with drivers. “I couldn’t get it through my head that you can’t fight everyone you work with,” he explained. He regrets what he calls “always being in fight mode. Now at over 10,723 wins* in his career, George is humble about his character years back. But my dad got back in the business and that was it.” “ I grew up racing Motocross, and boxing, and being a wild kid. “I knew how to take care of the horses, but I never thought in a million years I would do it for a career because it was just too much work,” he said. Harness racing as a career wasn’t what George thought would be in his future, even as he helped his dad with the horses when he was in his teens. “He made me into a driver.” Revelry (George) Photo Credit: Curtis Salonick His dad got a few horses, and George, in his early 30’s, got his chance. He swore that if he ever got back in the business, his sons would be driving,” George remembers. “He told me it was because he couldn’t take the drivers. asked his dad, who owned a high-performance shop building race cars, why he got out of the horse business. ![]()
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