Bee Two Bee was a handy winner in a Preferred 3 for pacers last Tuesday at Georgian Downs, and early tonight he stepped up to the Preferred 2 class for horse and gelding pacers and extended his winning streak to two in a row.
Driver Scott Coulter was in no hurry with the Craig Gilmour-trained favourite who got away last in the field of five. Pedro Hanover and Pretty Handsome scrapped early, however, and as a result they hung up an opening quarter clocked in :27.
Pretty Handsome emerged from that early skirmish with the lead, and he went on to carve out middle splits of :55.4 and 1:24.2. Cyclone Joe applied first over pressure on the leader in the third quarter and Coulter had Bee Two Bee positioned second over as the field headed into the final quarter of the $13,000 contest.
Bee Two Bee unleashed a closing quarter of :27.3 to win by three-quarters of a length over Pedro Hanover in 1:52.3 over a track rated ‘Sloppy’ with a two-second allowance. Royal Renegade was third.
Sent off at odds of even-money, Bee Two Bee now boasts a 2-1-2 record from 10 trips to the track this season for George Leber’s ICR Racing of Pefferlaw. The four-year-old son of Sunshine Beach-Bee Fullof Steinam is a 10-time winner with earnings in excess of $100,000.
To view results for Tuesday's card of harness racing, click the following link: Tuesday Results – Georgian Downs.