Bet Twice - Four-year-old Season

Four-year-old Season

As a four-year-old, Bet Twice's connections accepted an invitation to run him in the first revival of the $500,000 Grade I Pimlico Special Handicap at "Old Hilltop" in Baltimore, Maryland. He entered that race as the post-time fourth choice at odds of 7-1 in a field of seven graded stakes winners. Going into the famous "club house turn" at Pimlico Race Course, Oaklawn Handicap winner Lost Code led the field, followed by local favorite Little Bold John and dual classic winner Alysheba. Then, on the far turn, Bet Twice weaved through traffic and moved between horses to challenge for the lead. Coming down the stretch, he drifted out and brushed Lost Code. Then he drew off and won by 3/4 lengths. In that race, he avenged his loss to Alysheba in the Preakness from a year earlier and beat a stellar field that included Cryptoclearance, Lost Code and local star Little Bold John. The time for the Grade I race at 1 3/16 miles was 1:54 1/5.

Later that year, Bet Twice put in a very consistent summer campaign. He had runner-up finishes in the Grade I Philip H. Iselin Handicap, the Grade III Ben Ali Stakes and the Grade III Salvator Mile. He also had show performances in the Grade I Suburban Handicap and the Grade I United Nations Handicap.