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Tim Robinson was a Harness Horse Driver from 1978 until 2009. He registered four hundred and ninety two victories. He was an aggressive and talented, Teamster ,who won many races in the Horses fastest running time. His first Victory came on his first ever Drive aboard Dillers Demon in June of 1978 at Elmira Raceway. Tim raced mostly cheaper Stock at Sudbury Downs Raceway where I had occassion to follow his brief stint there. I have been following Harness racing all my life and have seen the best Drivers of the modern era. I would put Tim's Driving ability with the best, if given the opportunity to Drive the Stock of the other top Drivers in North America He had a touch with Horses seldom witnessed. I was there for three years watching his progress and it was nice to be part of something special ,his ability to make the right move was uncanny and resulted in some of the biggest longshot payoffs i've seen. Of course that was short lived because the other punters soon caught on to his abilities to get his Horses home first.Tim left for the southwestern Ont. Curcuit in the middle of 84 and had some moderate success but was given very few Drives and of those he had the bottom contenders to work with in the majority of those races. It was a Shame to see his talent unused by the Trainers in the South but they had no way of knowing the opportunity they were giving up nor did they likely care as they had better stock ,more money and were loyal to the established leaders of the time. Tim only briefly showed up in the stats thruogh the nineties and 2s given a chance he still won multiple races with moderate stock bringing the best from the horse and standing out in his Driving decisions. winning eight or nine in a row wtih a few young horses that were clearly benefitting from his Driving.This feat still went reletively unnoticed because his overall totals were still miniscule, again he often only had the one drive at the given track that day, mostly winning on that one opportunity but going unnoticed because others with ten or more drives wuold win two three of four races and would garner all the credit. after all one for one is only one even if it is batting 1000.