Photo: Curtis Salonick
By: Jerry Connors, Jr.
WILKES-BARRE PA – A trio of $15,000 contests for developing younger horses were the features at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on a sloppy Monday afternoon.
The Bettor’s Delight sophomore filly Three Times Bettor is undefeated in two 2025 races, and has a three-race winning streak stretching back to last season, after easily handling the opposition in the division of the featured class reserved for fillies and mares. Jack Pelling could spot the quick filly, heavily-favored, third early then wait until nearing the far turn to give her the signal to go, and Three Times Bettor knew exactly what to do, coming home in :54.4 - :27.1 to complete a 1:52.1 mile, for trainer-father Brett Pelling and owner Thaddeus Wier.
Even coming off a Stallion Series victory and having Pocono’s leading driver Tyler Buter, the International Moni colt Golazo was sent off at 6-1 in one division of the trot. The odds-on favorite Themoneyisback S made the lead at the quarter and set the pace into the final turn, with Golazo coming first-over then getting a tuck in the pocket. Buter always seems to find himself in the right place lately, mostly through clever design, and when the favorite went offstride on the far turn, Golazo was left clear and won handily in 1:56. Jill Roland, also on a roll lately, conditions the winner and co-owns him with David Neilson.
(By the way, Golazo is an appropriately-named horse right now, with the prestigious Club World Cup and the Gold Cup football [soccer] tournaments both currently being played in the United States; “golazo” is a Spanish term for a spectacular goal).
In the other top trot, Durante Hanover was also the beneficiary of a breaker, but he was on the lead when the pocket horse broke nearing headstretch, and the miscue and subsequent confusion left him clear to win in 1:58. Niko Karna had the driving assignment for trainer Noel Daley, co-owner with Kemppi Stables Oy Inc., Michael Yardeni, and PCW Racing LLC.
As we noted, Tyler Buter has been in the right place at the right time for weeks on end now at Pocono. On Monday Buter got home first four times, giving him 30 local wins for June (and it’s only the 16th) after tallying 52 times at Pocono in May.
Pocono closes out its week on Tuesday at 1 p.m., with carryovers into the fifth race Pick 5 and. When racing resumes on Saturday at 1 p.m., champion filly Miki And Minnie, coming off a victory in the $288,600 Fan Hanover Final at Woodbine Mohawk this past Saturday, will make her first Pennsylvania Sire Stakes start of the year in one of two sections of her division’s second preliminary. Free Pocono program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.
WILKES-BARRE PA – A trio of $15,000 contests for developing younger horses were the features at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on a sloppy Monday afternoon.
The Bettor’s Delight sophomore filly Three Times Bettor is undefeated in two 2025 races, and has a three-race winning streak stretching back to last season, after easily handling the opposition in the division of the featured class reserved for fillies and mares. Jack Pelling could spot the quick filly, heavily-favored, third early then wait until nearing the far turn to give her the signal to go, and Three Times Bettor knew exactly what to do, coming home in :54.4 - :27.1 to complete a 1:52.1 mile, for trainer-father Brett Pelling and owner Thaddeus Wier.
Even coming off a Stallion Series victory and having Pocono’s leading driver Tyler Buter, the International Moni colt Golazo was sent off at 6-1 in one division of the trot. The odds-on favorite Themoneyisback S made the lead at the quarter and set the pace into the final turn, with Golazo coming first-over then getting a tuck in the pocket. Buter always seems to find himself in the right place lately, mostly through clever design, and when the favorite went offstride on the far turn, Golazo was left clear and won handily in 1:56. Jill Roland, also on a roll lately, conditions the winner and co-owns him with David Neilson.
(By the way, Golazo is an appropriately-named horse right now, with the prestigious Club World Cup and the Gold Cup football [soccer] tournaments both currently being played in the United States; “golazo” is a Spanish term for a spectacular goal).
In the other top trot, Durante Hanover was also the beneficiary of a breaker, but he was on the lead when the pocket horse broke nearing headstretch, and the miscue and subsequent confusion left him clear to win in 1:58. Niko Karna had the driving assignment for trainer Noel Daley, co-owner with Kemppi Stables Oy Inc., Michael Yardeni, and PCW Racing LLC.
As we noted, Tyler Buter has been in the right place at the right time for weeks on end now at Pocono. On Monday Buter got home first four times, giving him 30 local wins for June (and it’s only the 16th) after tallying 52 times at Pocono in May.
Pocono closes out its week on Tuesday at 1 p.m., with carryovers into the fifth race Pick 5 and. When racing resumes on Saturday at 1 p.m., champion filly Miki And Minnie, coming off a victory in the $288,600 Fan Hanover Final at Woodbine Mohawk this past Saturday, will make her first Pennsylvania Sire Stakes start of the year in one of two sections of her division’s second preliminary. Free Pocono program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.
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