Saturday's Mizdirection Stakes victress Queen Maxima (Bucchero) will head to Kingfisher Farms in California for a layoff after collecting her sixth stakes win this past weekend, trainer Jeff Mullins announced Sunday.
Earning a 95 Beyer for her Mizdirection performance, Queen Maxima broke a two-race losing streak that started back in April when running fourth in the May 1 GII Unbridled Sidney Stakes at Churchill Downs and third in the GIII Monrovia at Santa Anita. Before that, she'd strung together successive victories in last October in the Senator Ken Maddy Stakes at Del Mar and Jan. 11 in the GIII Las Cienegas on the downhill course.
“She's going to the farm,” Mullins said. “I'll get her back about halfway through the Del Mar meet and get her ready.”
Stablemate Intrepido (Maximus Mischief), also co-owned by Dutch Girl Holdings LLC and Irving Ventures LLC, will join Queen Maxima at the farm. He was last seen finishing 16th in the GI Kentucky Derby May 2. The GI American Pharoah winner ran second in the GIII Robert B. Lewis Stakes and fourth in the GI Santa Anita Derby this year.
Two head out while one comes in as Man O Rose (Stanford) recently returned to the Mullins barn from Kingfisher after completing a 30-day break. The venerable gelding, a 12-time winner in his career, had a five-race winstreak interrupted back in March when he was defeated by fellow California-breds in the Sensational Star Stakes.
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