What kind of car do you drive? Ford Pickup 250 and Subaru Forester. Favorite dinner meal? Snack? A good steak; chips. What was your favorite track to race at? Why? Yonkers, because I won so many races there. When you win you like it. What is your favorite big event in racing? The [Little Brown] Jug. The atmosphere is great with the crowd close to the track. I like that aspect and that the race is two heats. What is your favorite sport to watch? Team? Football -- New York Giants. Hockey used to be first for me but I lost my team when the Quebec Nordiques became the [Colorado] Avalanche. They broke my heart. How did you get started in the sport?  A friend of mine worked in the business and I ended up quitting High School to work with him at Blue Bonnets as a groom. Then I became a trainer and eventually a driver. I was completely new to the business and didn't know anything about it until I was 17 or 18 years old. My parents were never involved. I just worked hard and made my way up. I met the right people, good trainers who gave me a chance.  You suffered a career-ending injury when you broke your C-1 vertebra in your neck on June 22, 2017 at Saratoga. What have you been doing since? Right now I work for the USTA as an ID Technician for microchips in New York State and New England. I also train 15 horses with my wife Eve Bergeron.  Is there any hope (or desire) to return to the bike? No, I can't. I can't turn my head left or right. I lost 90% of my motion left and right. I would like to drive a trotter to victory one more time and then retire. I train on the track but my head can't turn and if I fall out of the bike again I might be paralyzed.  You mentioned dreaming about getting one more win, but would you ever consider it? Yeah, I'm thinking about it. Hopefully I could win the first time, but if not, I would keep on trying. I'm definitely thinking about it. Do you still miss it? Yes. I've made my peace over it and I'm not crying over it, but I miss it. Training horses is a much harder job than driving. When you drive you look at the horse for two minutes and you hand off the lines and don't have to see that horse for the next week. With training you are with the horse every day and have to deal with the problems. It is fun too, but there is so much money and time that goes into it.  Do you watch other drivers compete with your horses and critique their performance? Yes, a lot, but I don't say it out loud. I'm learning that part and getting better at it. When I was giving the lines away a couple of years ago to the drivers I was so nervous, my heart was beating fast as I was watching the races. Now I'm getting better at it. What is one thing about you most fans/bettors don't know? I was a very good skier before the accident. I love music and play the guitar a little. I'm not very good at it, but I enjoy it.  What is one word that describes harness racing for you? Dream -- You have to dream to be in this business, otherwise you are done. What is your favorite thing to do outside of racing? I have a hard time with that now. I used to go skiing. I went to Switzerland and broke my neck two months after. That is what I miss the most. Right now, the only thing I really can do is work. I used to swim three times a week and run, but I can't anymore. It is sad but it could be worse. You are originally from Montreal. When did you come to the U.S. to drive? July 1999. What were your original expectations when you arrived? To try to make a living. It is hard to move to a new place since you don't know what to expect. I guess it more than reached my expectations.  Looking back on your career, with 8,589 wins and over $75 million in earnings from horses you drove, wouldn't many people just dream of that type of success? I would say that anyone who achieved those numbers had a good career, but I thought I still had many years in front of me. I'm proud of what I did. I worked hard and it paid off. I look back now and say it was a good career, but sometimes I watch some races and miss [driving] so much. What is the best advice you've ever gotten about harness racing? Something I've learned and my advice to drivers is to respect the trainers and owners. Respect in a sense of how much work and money these people put into their horses. When you drive a lot you tend to focus on yourself and forget about the work that happens before they give you the lines. Of course it is about the driver, too, but it is mostly on the owner and the trainer.  What was your favorite moment in harness racing? When I went back to Montreal I won the Prix d'Ete with On The Attack for Mark Ford. Also the Yonkers Trot in 2008 with Napoleon. I was actually in the Yonkers Trot in 1986 as a groom for On The Take for trainer Jean Paul Gauthier when I was like 19 or 20 years old. To go back some 20 years later with my same colors and win was special.  Which is the best horse you've ever driven? I drove Gallo Blue Chip a couple of times and got beat with him. Then I drove against him at Yonkers and beat him. I also drove Western Dreamer.  If you could choose any horse in history to drive, which horse would it be and why? Bettor's Delight, but I could name a bunch. It is a hard question. He's the first name that comes to mind. He was a great horse that had great speed. I raced a little against him.  What was your favorite horse to drive during your career? Carlspur. I raced him in the Open for what seemed like 10 years and he made almost a million. He was a tough, iron horse. If you had the power to change one thing in the sport, what would it be? To mix up the racing distances. I wish all of the races didn't look the same all the time. Along those lines, do you think drivers just go through the motions at times? There are a lot of things that happen during a race. I'm not saying that races don't look the same all the time. For us, we are in the race and know they don't look the same, but it's like my wife said, somebody outside of the box looks at a few races and think they look alike. I'm not talking about strategy but more about the whole picture. There is not enough variety in the sport. Who do you think is the best driver right now? It is so hard to answer. You need to have the timing, have good accounts and good horses to win races. If you put David Miller on the best horse, he is going to win. If you put Yannick [Gingras] or Dexter [Dunn] on the same horse, they are going to win.  How do you view the future of harness racing? The future looks ok, but we have to work at it all the time. We have to work harder at making things better. The future won't come to us. That is why I'm for change. Time for the stretch drive: Best Trainer Ever: Ron Burke. Best Race you ever saw: The Hambletonian match-race dead-heat [1989 -- Park Avenue Joe and Probe]. I like the heat racing but I understand some don't because they feel it is tough on the horses. Lasix -- Yes or No?: No. We raced in Quebec for years without Lasix and I think they still do. You have to ship the horse four hours out and then the horse sits in the paddock for four hours. I don't like it. Favorite TV Show?: Breaking Bad. Trotters or Pacers?: Trotters.