Roland Hopkins was born in Boston and spent several years of his income-producing career as a radio disc jockey. Soon, he discovered that newspaper writing was a quieter and more lucrative endeavor and launched what was to become the largest commercial weekly real estate newspaper in the country--the New England Real Estate Journal. But his not so lucrative hobby was thoroughbred racehorses. Not betting on them, but owning them. And while his nags won more than over 300 races at various tracks including Gulf stream, Hialeah, Caldor, Rockingham, and Suffolk downs, among others, he found that more...
