What kind of car do you drive? 2007 Ford Explorer. Favorite dinner meal? Snack? A good plate of spaghetti, meatballs and sausage on a Sunday. Velveeta crackers for snack. What was your favorite track to race at? It had to be Roosevelt. That's where my barn was. The track was good. I bought a home there. It was my favorite. What is your favorite big event in racing? I like the Breeders Crown and Breeders' Cup. They both put on a good show with the best horses at the end of the year. It is a great program. Is racing still on your mind often? When I got away from the track I would just watch Jimmy (Marohn Jr, son) race; not every day, but most of the times. All of the people I know are racehorse fans. When I worked at the golf course in Eisenhower Park from 2014 to 2019, word got around and the parents of the people who played, the ones that used to go to Roosevelt when they were young would talk to me about the races. So I really never got away from it. What is your favorite thing to do outside of the sport? Play golf. What is your favorite sport to watch? Team? Other than horse racing, football. I was born and raised in Cleveland Ohio and I live in New York, so I root for the Jets, Giants and Browns.  What is one thing about you most fans/bettors didn't know? I love to kid around but there is a lot of seriousness behind what I say. What is one word that describes harness racing for you? People. How did you get started in the sport?  My father had bought a piece of a horse for $2,500 in 1964. During my last year of High School I would go to the barn with them on Saturday to see the horse and the guy there told me to come back during the summertime and work around the barn. I loved it and that's how I started. How did you end up as a driver? I kind of got twisted into it. I was working as a groom for Billy Haughton and I got hooked up with another trainer who wanted to go out on his own and I went with him. I went to Monticello and guys like Herman Carbone and a couple of others kept seeing me jogging and training and thought with my size I'd be good at driving. So I went for my license because other people mentioned it. I never thought about it myself.  What was it like working for Billy Haughton? It was some of the best times of my life. To me he was fantastic. After you worked for him and got to know him, there was really no one like him, though Stanley (Dancer) was great, too, but I was working for Billy so he was my guy. You retired back in 2014, was the adjustment hard? Not really, because I was up in Monticello and not getting the best of drives. I had just gotten into an accident in 2013. I was driving a trotter and it got caught up in the trotting hobbles and went down. The whole field was scattered. I started thinking, 'I'm 66, I'm too old for this'. Do you still miss driving? I've gotten to the point where I don't miss it because I'm around it now.  You recently took a job as the Horsemen's representative for the SOA of NY at Yonkers. How is that going? I love it. I like being around the track and I love to help the horsemen. I'm there every night they race. What is the best advice you've ever gotten about harness racing? There are a couple of trainers and drivers would give me tips on what I was doing wrong, guys like Mike Santamaria and top drivers. When you are out on the track, you are all alone. It is a big difference when you are looking around out there trying to figure things out and when someone else tells you what you may have done wrong. It really helps you pick it up quickly.  What was your favorite moment in harness racing? One of my biggest moments was winning the 1981 Cane Pace with Wildwood Jeb, but I had so many good moments. For me it was all about the people I raced for. Everybody loves a winner and I used to love to come back to see the looks on the people's faces.  Who was the best horse you ever drove? Wildwood Jeb was the best 3-year-old. Resonator was very good. He went on to be a stud in New Zealand. Naturally my favorites were the ones that I owned.  Who was the fastest horse you ever drove? Might've been Resonator or Secret Service. Paul Vance and his son Joey were very good to me with Secret Service.  You have 5,358 career driving wins. What does that number mean to you? Not much. I never followed that or counted the wins. I was surprised I won that many races because it was a short time. I didn't get my license until I was 27. A lot of guys started when they were 16 or 20, and even when you get your 'A' license, it is usually two to three years before you start to get drives. I never went on the road or raced at multiple tracks.  What was the most interesting thing to happen to you on the track? When I went to Italy. There were about 20 of us. The Italian people wanted us to bring pacers because all they had are trotters. They treated us like Kings and Queens. I was with my first wife and I won the final of the series. That was one of my best moments. They said that everyone would go back to the paddock after the race except the winner, so they put an American flag and an Italian flag in my hands and I paraded in front of the stands with the lights out while in a spotlight. It was one of my most memorable moments.  You competed against some of the best drivers the sport has seen. Who were some of the toughest to beat? There were a lot of good drivers, Herve (Filion), Mike Lachance, even Luc (Ouelette) was a great young force; Carmine (Abbatiello), too. I don't think I could pick one. My top three would probably be Mike, Herve and Carmine. What about Walter Case Jr? He came and went. He was one of the dominant forces, but he went to The Meadowlands and Ohio. I was talking about the guys who stayed at Yonkers. If you could choose any horse in history to drive, which horse would it be and why? It would have to be a trotter because there is nothing like a nice trotter. Maybe Nevele Pride or Muscle Hill. They were just fluid. It would be fun to drive a horse like that. Your son Jim Marohn Jr is a fairly accomplished driver. Are you surprised by his accomplishments? He surprised me only one time. When he was going for his qualifying license, I was listed on two horses in a race and he drove one. His horse made a fumble behind the gate and his horse went flying by me at the end of the race like a force, and my horse was better than his. Right then and there I thought, 'he's got something'. If you had the power to change one thing in the sport, what would it be? For every racetrack to have a barn area. I think horses race better from the barn area. The shipping takes a toll on the horses and trainers are shipping now from one place to the next. It is too much. These horses are very strong animals and they can endure a lot, but it is too much. One day they are at Pocono, then at Yonkers, then Dover. People kind of go against themselves because there is nothing set. The owners kind of took over instead of the trainers and everyone is chasing the money. How do you view the future of harness racing? I don't think it will die off. I hope it doesn't get worse in popularity than it is now.  Is harness racing better now or was it better 40 years ago when you started out? I don't know if it is better now. There are certain things that are better now and more things that were better then.  One is one thing that was better then? I think we took care of our horses better. Hasn't the breed itself changed a lot over the years? These horses now, when they are 2-year-olds, they are fluid and you can do anything you want with them. Time for the stretch drive: Best Horse You Ever Saw: I saw Niatross. He was a fantastic horse, but there are so many horses now that pace like him and they are $100,000 claimers.  Best Trainer Ever: That's too tough to answer.  Lasix -- Yes or No?: I'm not a big fan of it. The people who like it must be the ones who are racing. Favorite TV Show?: Colombo. Trotters or Pacers?: Trotters are my favorite.