Favorites defeated in KYSS

Lexington, KY — On Sunday (Sept. 1) Go Dog Go (Greenshoe-Primary Target) and Miki And Minnie (Always B Miki-That’s The Ticket) downed the harness racing favorites in their respective divisions to collect triumphs in the $80,000 fourth legs of the Kentucky Sire Stakes Championship Series for freshman male trotters and 2-year-old pacing fillies.

Go Dog Go (Todd McCarthy) was content to sit in third eyeballing pocket-sitting favorite Chat Room (Yannick Gingras) for three-quarters of the mile while longshot General Kronos (Tim Tetrick) set the fractions of :28.4, :56.3 and 1:25.3.

As the field of seven strode into the stretch, Go Dog Go decided it was time to determine what was in the tank and did not disappoint. He trotted to the wire in :27 which was more than enough to outlast Chat Room, who was third and a hard-closing Blank (Dexter Dunn). He stopped the clock a lifetime best 1:53.

Trained by Carter Pinske, Go Dog Go broke his maiden on July 28 in the $30,000 first leg of the Kentucky Commonwealth Series. The colt broke stride moving up in class in the second $80,000 leg of the Kentucky Sire Stakes Championship Series on Aug. 5 and did not finish in the money in that event as the public’s second selection behind favored Super Chapter.

The colt did come home front of that rival in the second leg of the series but was second to Chat Room.

GO DOG GO REPLAY

Owned by Wiesman Farms and Al Libfeld, Go Dog Go’s resume is 4-2-1-0 and he has banked $75,000.

Go Dog Go was bred by Wiesman Farms and was a $110,000 yearling purchase at the 2023 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale.

The colt is the second foal from out of an unraced dam and his granddam is Hall of Fame member Southwind Serena. The mare produced Exemplar (Andover Hall, $431,627) world champion and Dan Patch Award winner Mission Brief (Muscle Hill, $1.59 million), Earn Your Wings (Credit Winner, $314,530) and the top stallion Tactical Landing (Muscle Hill, $812,300) who has sired the last two Hambletonian victors in Tactical Landing and Karl.

Go Do Go paid $5.34 to his supporters.

Miki And Minnie (Dunn) denied undefeated favorites Looksgoodinloulou (Gingras) and Ascendance (Scott Zeron) their bids for victory in the leg for freshman pacing fillies. Sweet Ballad (David Miller) was second and Champagne Room (Andrew McCarthy) was third.

The final time of 1:50.3 was a new mark for the filly.

Leaving from post position eight in the field of 10, Miki And Minnie paced in third position for the first quarter mile with Duration establishing the first split in :27.1. The filly’s pilot decided it was time to go and she assumed command with a :56 half-mile and a 1:23.4 three-quarter mile split.

Heavy favorite Looksgoodinloulou came home in :26.2. Miki And Minnie, as well as Sweet Ballad, closed out their own miles with final panels in :26.3.

MIKI AND MINNIE REPLAY

Trained by Chris Ryder, Miki And Minnie competes as a homebred for Craig Henderson, Robert Mondillo and Lawrence Minowitz.

The filly is the third foal out of her dam who earned $268,521 during her racing career.

Miki And Minnie is a half-sibling to Dance Ticket (A RocknRoll Dance, $116,238) and Great Seats (Sweet Lou, $101,617).

Her career slate stands at 6-2-4-0 and she has earned $80,000 in purse money.

Miki And Minnie provided $17.18 for her second victory.

Three Times Bettor, Yannick G Kemp collect Commonwealth Series triumphs

Three Times Bettor (Bettor’s Delight-Three Times A Lady, Andrew McCarthy) took the $30,000 fourth leg of the Kentucky Commonwealth Series for 2-year-old filly pacers in a lifetime best 1:51.4. Accede (Gingras) was second and Ronstadt (T. McCarthy) came home third.

Trained by Brett Pelling, the filly now possesses a record of 6-2-1-2.

She was bred by Steve Stewart, Conquest Acres Lp and Michael Robinson.

Three Times Bettor was sold for $155,000 to Thadeus Wier at the 2023 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale.

The filly’s dam, Dolphins Can Talk, is a half-sister to Flipper J (Art Major, $586,182), Talk Back (Tell All, $163,052), Bushwacker (Rocknroll Hanover, $743,806) and Baby Your The Best (Captaintreacherous, $477,497).

Dolphins Can Talk is a daughter of Hall of Fame member and world champion Stienam’s Place.

Three Times Bettor hails from one of the best female families in the sport. She paid $3.96 to win as the favorite.

Yannick G Kemp (Walner-Southwind Adele, Peter Wrenn) closed out the 17-race card with a 1:53.4 win in the $30,000 fourth leg of the Commonwealth Series for 2-year-old male trotters. Memento Mori (Zeron) and Bank On Me (T. McCarthy) rounded out the trifecta.

Trained by R. Richard Norman aka Nifty Norman, he hit the line with the swiftest time of his young career and collected his second consecutive victory.

Yannick G Kemp has a record of 6-3-1-0 and was bred by Kemppi Stables and Suojalampi Stable. He went through the ring at the 2023 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale for $180,000 to Melvin Hartman, Rojan Stables and Little E LLC.

The colt paid $6.94 to win as the public’s top selection.

Racing continues today (Monday, Sept. 2) at The Red Mile and tomorrow (Tuesday, Sept. 3) with a first post of 1 p.m.

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For complete race results, click here: US Trotting results.

by Kimberly French, for The Red Mile