Oak Grove, KY — Following her 1:48.3 lifetime-best and track-record equaling performance in the Kentucky Sire Stakes spring series final and a resounding 1:49.4 score last week in the first preliminary of the summer series, Thaddeus Wier’s Three Times Bettor will put an eight-race win streak on the line in the second round of the current Kentucky Sire Stakes series for 4-year-old pacing mares on Monday (June 1) at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel.
The daughter of Bettor’s Delight-Three Times A Lady has been perfect in four starts this season, but her win streak dates to Oct. 13, 2025 when she kicked off a sweep of the Kentucky Sire Stakes fall series for 3-year-olds at Cumberland Run. With usual driver Dexter Dunn away, Andy McCarthy has been tabbed by trainer Brett Pelling to drive the 13-time winner, who will start from the pole as the 2-5 morning-line favorite in the abbreviated field of five to contest a $50,000 purse in the eighth of 14 races on the card.
The field also features a trio of Ron Burke trainees: spring series runner-up Aintnothingucando (post 3, Yannick Gingras, 4-1), who also chased Three Times Bettor from the pocket to finish second in opening-round action; Rose (post 2, Ronnie Wrenn Jr., 9-2), who has bounced back from a winless sophomore season with four wins in eight starts thus far at 4; and Champagne Room (post 4, Tim Tetrick, 10-1), runner-up to Three Times Bettor in the Cumberland Run series final last fall.
A couple other spring champions will look to extend current streaks. Gimpanzee Dancer looks for his fourth straight success after a resounding 5-3/4-lengths, 1:51.3 first-round win last week, and will start from the pole for driver Andy McCarthy and trainer Chris Beaver in the first of two sections for 4-year-old trotting males, carded as Race 1. Two races later, the versatile Harrisburg Heist, with Ronnie Wrenn Jr. aboard for Burke, will take on six rivals looking to end his current streak at three in the first of two splits for 4-year-old pacing males.
The 4-year-old trotting mares will also compete in a single dash of Kentucky Sire Stakes on Monday with a field of six competing in Race 11 on the 14-race card. Ron Burke pupil Winnpanzee (post 1, Yannick Gingras, 2-1) will look to rebound from a runner-up finish in the opening prelim behind R Dutchess (post 5, Tim Tetrick, 5-2), who worked a perfect pocket trip to win the kickoff leg in 1:52.4. The field of six also includes the longshot winner of the spring series final Aperfect Annie (post 6, Todd McCarthy, 7-2) as well as last season’s Elegantimage Stakes winner Lasting Dream (post 2, Daniel Dube, 4-1), who will make her second start of the season.
The card also features a $30,000 Open Handicap Pace in Race 4 and a United States Harness Driving Club event. On the wagering front, a pair of 20-cent Pick 5s, covering Races 1-5 and Races 6-10, and a $1 Pick 4 on the last four races of the card all feature a player-friendly 15% takeout.
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