Bettorhaveanother made her first Dover Downs appearance a winning one, overtaking Scandalcious (Jonathan Roberts) at the wire in a 1:51.4 four-horse photo to win the $25,000 Valentine’s Day Mares Open Handicap on Wednesday (Feb. 14). Tim Tetrick and Corey Callahan drove three winners each.
Corey Callahan drove 5-1 shot Bettorhaveanother to her second straight win of the year along with two seconds in four starts for trainer Ron Burke and owners Weaver Bruscemi and the Burke Racing Stable. Scandalicious had taken the early lead and maintained the front with horses coming on strongly before Bettorhaveanother finally caught her at the finish line. Enhance Your Mind (Vic Kirby) and Sweet Bobbie (Art Safford Jr.) were the third- and fourth-place finishers.
The winner is a six-year-old daughter of Bettors Delight-Katie My Girl, who now has won $288,452 lifetime.
Bad Lightning struck at 7-1 in the $18,000 distaff sub-feature, winning in 1:57.2 for driver Jonathan Roberts, owner-trainer Josh Parker, and co-owner Nanticoke Racing. It was the second success in the last three outings for the Badlands Hanover-Malocchio five-year-old. Berazzled (Tetrick), the race favorite, was second with OK Jasmine (Russell Foster) third.
Stormtracker had just enough to beat Moments Of Joy (Kirby) in 1:52.4 to take a $16,000 female pace. Linda Toscano conditions the four-year-old by Big Jim-Stonebridge Breeze, who was piloted by Tetrick and has now won four of her last five races. Gypsy Rose (Montrell Teague) finished third.
Tetrick and Callahan had three wins apiece; Tony Morgan and trainer Mike Hall posted doubles.
(Dover Downs)