By john manzi for NAADA
After
the first leg of the long standing NAADA Trotting Series was snowed-out last
Thursday at Monticello Raceway the 2017 edition got underway with two divisions
at Yonkers on March 23 and when the dust had settled Hannah Miller and Bob
Krivelin each emerged victorious in their respective $6000 splits.
Off
her award winning 2016 season “Hurricane Hannah” showed that she knows where
the winners circle is by reining the Chris Marino-trained Winwood Scout to a
gate-to-wire 2:00.1 victory in her division.
That
victory came on the heels of Hannah’s stunning 1:52.4 triumph last week at the
Meadowlands which established a new world standard for the fastest mile ever
driven by an amateur driver.
In
tonight’s contest Ms. Miller took no prisoners and set sails for the lead from
the pole position. She and Linwood Scout were alone on the front-end in a :29.1
clocked first quarter and from there it was catch me of you can. And not
surprisingly, nobody could as Winwood Scout rambled on to a 2-1/2 length
victory in a 2:00.1 clocking over Dr. John Kokinos’s Sim Brown. Bob
Hechkoff took home the show dough with The Franchise.
“Tonight
was the second time that I drove Winwood Scout for Chris (Marino). Last year at
Saratoga I finished second with him and tonight we got away with reasonable
fractions and he was strong throughout the mile and we won rather
handily,“ Hannah said via telephone after her driving victory. “He’s a
real nice horse to drive.”
The
winner is owned by Howard Jacobs and for “Hurricane Hannah” it was her second
driving victory of the fledgling season and her 75th in just 256
lifetime starts,
The
other division was also a wire to wire victory for Permanent Joy and
driver Bob Krivelin. After stealing a 1:01 first half Peter Kleinhans and Toss
Cartwright kept the pressure on Permanent Joy but they fell a neck short at the
wire and finished second in the 2:00.2 mile. Tropical Storm Bi was two
lengths behind the leaders at the wire and finished third.
Permanent
Joy is owned by Krivelin’s Hero Stables and trained by Krivelin. For the food
purveyor it marked his 204th career driving victory.
