Bob Hechkoff
Freehold, NJ Bob Hechkoff learned long ago that if a driver has the best horse in the race there s only one place to be and that is on the front-end. And that s exactly where the veteran amateur harness racing driver put his Boots N Chains in the $9000 American Harness Drivers Club trot at Freehold Raceway on Saturday afternoon(12-19) and the 8-year-old trotter made every pole a winning one en route to a 2:01.1 victory.
After starting from the five-hole Hechkoff sent his charge to the lead and they had two lengths on their competition as they trotted by the first stanza in :29.1. Still comfortably in front as the field headed to the halfway point Paul Minore moved If I Must off the pylons and up to challenge. However Boots N Chains rebuffed his rival and he still had command.