Maycocks Bay Returns a Winner at Fair Grounds

Maycocks Bay | Sarah Andrew

Godolphin homebred Maycocks Bay (Speightstown), forced to scratch from the GIII Southwest Stakes as the morning-line favorite in February, returned from 11 months on the sidelines to win a 1 1/16-mile allowance at Fair Grounds Saturday.

“We're delighted to have him back,” trainer Mike Stidham said. “He had been training so well coming up to this that anything short of that would have been a disappointment. Hopefully he comes out of it well and we can start looking for some bigger and better things.”

In his first race since a 10-length win at Fair Grounds in January, Maycocks Bay sat just off the lead for most of the race before kicking clear to win by 1 1/2 lengths.

“We didn't really want to jump out on the lead and do what he did before the layoff,” Stidham said. “We were hoping to get him to relax just off a horse. It worked out perfectly.”

Maycocks Bay was forced out of the Southwest after spiking a fever earlier in the year.

“He had shipped to Oaklawn for the Southwest, but once he got there, he had a 104 degree temperature,” Stidham said. “We scanned his lungs and found out he had pneumonia. He went to the farm and it lingered, and it took way longer than we expected. It's been his lungs [that kept him away]–he's always been very sound.”

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