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A number of main prize winners emerge after massively profitable 2025 marketing campaign Queen Maxima He begins his 5-year-old season as a Grade 3, projected favourite for $100,000 in prize cash. Las Cienegas Stakes Sunday at Santa Anita for older fillies and mares. Las Cienegas is contested over roughly 6 1/2 furlongs on Santa Anita’s distinctive hillside turf course.
Final 12 months, Queen Maxima went 7-5 and earned $457,360 for coach Jeff Mullins and co-owners Dutch Woman Holdings and Irving Ventures. Her wins embody Unbridled Sydney at Churchill Downs and Monrovia at Santa Anita, each Grade 3s. Santa Anita’s Wishing Nicely and Del Mar’s Sen. Ken Maddy will shut out the season on Oct. 31.
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Queen Maxima has a document of 5:4-0-1 on the hillside grass course. Buccello’s daughter, who grew up in Florida, shall be ridden by common rider Juan Hernandez.
New to the lineup is Rosie Zeeks. Rosie Zeeks, a 5-year-old filly out of World of Hassle, has been out of motion since profitable the 5-1/2 Goodwood Stakes at Monmouth Park final June. That effort was dropped at you by coach Chad Brown and co-owners Workforce Hunley and Thirty Yr Farm.
The next month, Rosie Zekes was exhibited on the Kentucky Racing Age Horse Sale and offered to Nervik Worldwide for $300,000. She is going to reappear in California with coach Neil Drysdale and proprietor Marcia Neifai. Jockey Armando Ayuso rides Rosie Zekes in his hometown debut.
Drysdale, a Corridor of Famer, can even ship Egyptian Mau to Workforce Valor Worldwide, which owns it. Egyptian Mau, imported from his native South Africa, lately received the second-level slot down the hill in October after stumbling at first. This was the 6-year-old filly’s third begin in the US. Egyptian Mau will as soon as once more be ridden by Mike Smith.
Princess Moche was imported from Peru final summer time and seems to be thriving underneath coach Doug O’Neill. He’ll shorten the gap after a stalking journey at Del Marron Race Course on Nov. 8, the place he received the second stage acceptance situation by going one mile on the grass. Beforehand, Princess Moche had cleared the primary stage acceptance necessities throughout her first dash on a hilly course. Mirco DeMuro rode for each wins and is as soon as once more on the mission.
Spicy Bug moved down a category, bringing him nearer to coach Michael McCarthy and proprietor Mike G. Rutherford. Most lately, Spicy Bug was thrown into deep water on the GI Matriach, a mile of grass, and was too weak to face up to a nine-horse subject. Beforehand, in October, a 6-year-old filly out of Speightstown received a ranking handicap on a hillside turf course. Common rider Ricky Gonzalez shall be taking part within the iron race.
| no. | silk | horse/stallion | analysis | Coach/Jockey | Earlier begin / Subsequent begin | scenario |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Queen Maxima Bucchero | 7.49 | Jeff Mullins Juan J. Hernandez | 1st Place (75), 2025 Senator Ken Maddie LS 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | I entered | |
| closing race subsequent race | 1st Place (75), 2025 Senator Ken Maddie LS 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | |||||
| 2 | Egyptians at all times fireplace away | 0.00 | Neil D. Drysdale Mike E. Smith | 1st place (99), SA AOC (2025/10/10-R5) 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | I entered | |
| closing race subsequent race | 1st place (99), SA AOC (2025/10/10-R5) 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | |||||
| 3 |  | moche princess Mwari | 0.00 | Doug F. O’Neill mirco demuro | 1st place (115), DMR AOC (2025/11/08-R5) 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | I entered |
| closing race subsequent race | 1st place (115), DMR AOC (2025/11/08-R5) 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | |||||
| 4 | spicy bug Speightstown | 5.84 | Michael W. McCarthy Ricardo Gonzalez | 2025 Matriarch Stakes G1 ninth place (102) 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | I entered | |
| closing race subsequent race | 2025 Matriarch Stakes G1 ninth place (102) 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | |||||
| 5 | omnipontet hat trick | 0.00 | Philip D’Amato Kazushi Kimura | sixth Place, 2025 Senator Ken Maddie LS 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | I entered | |
| closing race subsequent race | sixth Place, 2025 Senator Ken Maddie LS 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | |||||
| 6 | miss lizzy basic empire | 6.09 | Doug F. O’Neill Emisael Jaramillo | 2nd place (100), SA RHP (2025/10/25-R7) 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | I entered | |
| closing race subsequent race | 2nd place (100), SA RHP (2025/10/25-R7) 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | |||||
| 7 | rosie jeeks world of hassle | 0.00 | Neil D. Drysdale Armando Ayuso | 1st place (97), Goldwood S. 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | I entered | |
| closing race subsequent race | 1st place (97), Goldwood S. 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | |||||
| 8 | Nay V Bell cadet | 6.87 | Mark Glatt Umberto Rispoli | eighth place (84), 2025 Stormy Liberal LS 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | I entered | |
| closing race subsequent race | eighth place (84), 2025 Stormy Liberal LS 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | |||||
| 9 | antiphon Recoletos | 6.12 | Vladimir Chelin Thiago Josué Pereira | 2024 Senorita Stakes G3 sixth 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | I entered | |
| closing race subsequent race | 2024 Senorita Stakes G3 sixth 2026 Las Cienegas Stakes G3 | |||||
