STANLEY Dancer (1927 – 2005) of New Jersey was the best known trainer and driver of his day. He started out in harness racing in the post war boom years. Pioneers such as George Morton Levy were determined to take the sport from the laid-back atmosphere of the country fairs and they built palatial stadia with floodlights, glass fronted restaurants and indoor betting halls.

The story goes that in 1948 Stanley Dancer and his first wife Rachel pooled their resources, bought an old trotter called Candor and set off to the races in a battered trailer.