Fred Ecoffey, Nebraska’s winningest jockey, preps for 66th season in racing

  • Fred Ecoffey, Nebraska’s winningest jockey, preps for 66th season in racing
    Fred Ecoffey, Nebraska’s winningest jockey, preps for 66th season in racing
  • Fred Ecoffey, Nebraska’s winningest jockey, preps for 66th season in racing
    Fred Ecoffey, Nebraska’s winningest jockey, preps for 66th season in racing

    By Heidi Beguin Fred Ecoffey, regularly travels the 40-some miles from his home near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota to compete in a local bowling league with his son Allen at King Pin Lanes of Gordon. Many of the people who see the polite, soft-spoken man, have no idea he started more than 17,522 horse races, winning 2,683 of them. Around 2,400 of those wins were all on Nebraska race tracks, g…