About five or six years ago, Cathy Dessert was pretty new to the harness racing game, having just started her foray into the sulky sport, by purchasing fractional-ownership shares in a couple of horses at Running Aces. She, along with her husband Bill, quickly caught the bug and jumped head-first into full-fledged Standardbred ownership, while enlisting the services of one of the top local horsemen, Nick Roland, as their trainer and driver. Around that time, she had a chance encounter with a very cool authentic Dan Patch-era high-wheel sulky, on display at, of all places, the local Thoroughbred track Canterbury Park.