SLIPPERY ROCK— After 25 years in the horse racing business, nearly 200 wins and ownership of about 150 horses, Bill and Renee Bercury have found Good Will.

In more ways than one.

The Slippery Rock couple race their horses at The Meadows, a harness racing track in Meadow Lands, Washington County, and bought a yearling named C Small Hanover at the 2006 Adios sale for $6,500.

"We didn't like the horse's name and wanted to change it,"Renee Bercury said. "We had received the book "Looking for Goodwill" in the mail and changing the horse's name to Good Will seemed like a natural."

"Looking for Goodwill" was written by Scott and Patrick Price, a father-son duo who spent a year traveling to all 50 states doing research on the good things that happen to people.

The younger Price has spina bifida and is confined to a wheelchair. The Bercurys met the Prices during a 2004 vacation to Alaska.

They met during a stay in Denali National Park. They bumped into each other again while having dinner in Anchorage and again at a gas station in Prince William Sound.

"I was so impressed with those two people,"Bill Bercury said. "The father's attitude toward his handicapped son was that he could do anything he wanted to do in life."

Bercury's wife agreed.

"They are just good, special, caring people," she said.

Alaska was the final stop on the Prices' yearlong trip to all 50 states.

Originally, the Bercurys made a donation to the Spina Bifida Association after spending time with the Prices.

But they wanted to do more.

"After we named our horse Good Will, we decided to donate 10 percent of his earnings to the Spina Bifida Association,"Bercury said. "That will continue for as long as Good Will is racing."

And that might be a while.

Good Will has a 10-year-old half brother, Columbus Hanover, who has earned more than $450,000 and has a career-best time of 1 minute, 53.4 seconds.

Good Will has another half-brother who's piled up more than $125,000 in career earnings.

Good Will himself picked up his first career victory Tuesday at The Meadows and already has earned $13,630 in five career starts. That means a $1,363 donation to the organization so far.

As a 2-year-old last year, Good Will trained down to a best time of 2:15, but seemed disinclined to go faster. That all changed this year with a pair of third-place finishes at a faster pace and a second-place finish in the $33,800 final of the South Strabane Trot.

Dave Palone, the third-winningest harness racing driver in history, drove Good Will to Tuesday's victory.

From 1978 to 2008, Bill Bercury drove horses to 124 wins himself.

The Bercurys have made Scott and Patrick Price honorary owners of Good Will.

"Hopefully, he'll continue to make a lot of money for spina bifida — and for us,"Bercury said.

Scott Price said in a released statement:"Meeting the Bercurys soundly confirmed what we found in our interviews for the book: we are surrounded by a vast reservoir of good will. It is broad and deep and worth looking for every day. We love telling people about Bill, Renee and the horse."

Good Will might be inspiring still more good will from the Bercurys.

"He's the first horse we've ever done something like this with," Renee Bercury said. "We've talked about maybe doing it again.

"Horses have meant a lot to us. It feels good to give something back through our mutual love for the sport," she added.