Pocono: Treacherous Dragon stays perfect in 2022 with PA Sire Stakes score

Driver Tim Tetrick swept the two divisions of the $135,032 third preliminary of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for 3-year-old pacing fillies during the Sunday card at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, taking both sections with daughters of Captaintreacherous: winning first with (inter)national divisional leader Treacherous Dragon, and then with Captain Cowgirl in the faster cut.

Treacherous Dragon had anything but an easy time negotiating traffic in her division, avoiding an early mixup caused by Sweet And Feisty, who made an equipment break before a 26 4/5 quarter. She tucked in third as Dont Fence Me In, who got around the trouble with the lead, and Lydeo, who was left parked, argued through middle panels of 56 3/5 and 1:23 3/5. Tetrick edged his filly out at the three-quarters, but ducked back inside on the far turn as the pocket-sitter gave way, attacking Dont Fence Me In in the Pocono Pike and getting the job done by three-quarters of a length in 1:51 2/5 with a sharp last sixteenth.

Treacherous Dragon was thus successful in her debut under the care of Nancy Takter, and kept her record unblemished in six seasonal starts, including two Sire Stakes. She has earnings of $560,613 for owners Hot Lead Farms LLC.

Tetrick took an easier route in the other section with Captain Cowgirl, going up past the 26 4/5 quarter to take command and putting up middle-half splits of 55 1/5 and 1:22 2/5 over a track which greatly favored speed. Queen Of Success, who went off at 4-5 to Captain Cowgirl's 6-5, came out at headstretch and cut into the winner's margin, but "Cowgirl" maintained a head advantage at the finish in 1:50 2/5.

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Captain Cowgirl has two wins in three 2022 starts; her other victory came in 1:49 3/5 in a Sire Stakes at The Meadows. Jim King Jr. conditions the fleet filly, who has earned $323,835, for Jo Ann Looney-King and Kenneth Frieder.

--press release (PHHA/Pocono)--