Bucchero's Queen Maxima Wins Wishing Well
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Queen Maxima, featured earlier this week on these pages and last seen Jan. 23 registering a facile 3 1/2-length score versus allowance company on the downhill turf course here, put forth a similar display over a sixteenth shorter in her return to stakes competition in Saturday's Wishing Well Stakes at Santa Anita. Second last Sept. 28 in the Unzip Me Stakes to Toupie (Uncle Mo), who proved victorious in the GIII Las Cienegas Stakes Jan. 19, Queen Maxima, sent off at 3-10, drubbed her five foes after biding her time for the opening four furlongs. Angled three-wide into the stretch, she was given her cue by Juan Hernandez and swept past the pacesetter Ma Rae's Girl before going on to a 3 1/2-length tally.
Hernandez, who has now ridden her to three consecutive wins since the Unzip Me, said, “She broke really good and I was in a really good spot saving ground on the inside. [Trainer] Jeff [Mullins] told me to ride her with confidence because she was ready to run. I trusted him and trusted my filly. She is press button. You ask and she takes off in two jumps. She did the rest on her own.”
Queen Maxima's dam, a four-time winner, has also produced the unraced 3-year-old Gunnevera colt Florida Chrome. She has no reported foals since.
WISHING WELL S., $100,500, Santa Anita, 2-22, (C), 4yo/up, f/m, 6fT, 1:07.81, fm.
1–QUEEN MAXIMA, 122, f, 4, Bucchero–Corfu Lady, by
Corfu. ($40,000 2yo '23 OBSOPN). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN.
O-Dutch Girl Holdings LLC and Irving Ventures LLC; B-Saul
Rosas (FL); T-Jeff Mullins; J-Juan J. Hernandez. $60,000.
Lifetime Record: 7-4-2-0, $210,900.
2–Ma Rae's Girl, 120, f, 4, Mendelssohn–Isla, by Unbridled's
Song. ($40,000 RNA Ylg '22 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE.
O-Seymour Jukie and Jack Stable LLC; B-Crosshaven
Bloodstock (KY); T-Doug F. O'Neill. $20,000.
3–Laulne (Fr), 124, f, 4, Starspangledbanner (Aus)–Lady
Francesca (GB), by Montjeu (Ire). (€750,000 2yo '23
ARARC). O-Madaket Stables LLC, Panic Stable LLC, Gerard
Augustin-Normand, Robert V. LaPenta, and William Strauss;
B-Franklin Finance S.A. (FR); T-Philip D'Amato. $12,000.
Margins: 3HF, 2 3/4, NK. Odds: 0.30, 39.30, 6.50.
Also Ran: Stay and Scam, Miss Roberts (GB), Arctic Breeze.
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— Santa Anita Park (@santaanitapark) February 22, 2025
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