Possible Clues:

• Three-goal statistic
• Three scored in a row as in soccer match
• To be played by the conjuror three times out
• Three scores by one player
• Three consecutive successes
• Yokel embraces tart uneasily, a rare achievement
• Three scores by one person, say goals in a match
• Three-D is missals?
• Horse races beset by a sprain but wins on the trot
• Three wickets taken by a bowler with consecutive balls