Florida-bred Majestic Lucia Also Entered

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

My Miss Mo looks to snap a string of two runner-up finishes in graded stakes and fellow Florida-bred Majestic Lucia attempts to extend a two-race win streak in Friday’s Grade 2 George E. Mitchell Black-Eyed Susan, a mile-and-one-eighth test for ten 3-year-old fillies at Laurel Park.

In addition to running for the winner’s share of the $300,000 purse, My Miss Mo and Majestic Lucia will vie for a $5,000 Export Incentive paid to their breeder by the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association should they win the out-of-state race at this level.  

Scratched by trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. out of the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs run May 1, My Miss Mo runs for the first times since finishing second to Prom Queen after setting the pace in the mile-and-a-sixteenth Gulfstream Park Oaks presented by City National Bank (G2) on March 28. In her only other race this year, the bay daughter of Uncle Mo was second to She Be Smooth in the Grade 2 Davona Dale going a mile at Gulfstream on on February 28. 

 

Owned by Rich Averill’s Averill Racing based in Bradenton, Florida; Tristan de Meric of Ocala, Florida and the Mathis Racing Stable of Bill and Terry Mathis of Oklahoma City, My Miss Mo has won one of five starts with three seconds and earnings of $148,030. In her second career start, she won a seven-furlong maiden special weight for Florida-bred fillies at Gulfstream in November.

Averill Racing and Mathis Racing purchased My Miss Mo out of the de Meric Sales consignment for $320,000 at last year’s Ocala Breeders’ Sales March Sale of 2-year-olds in training. She is out of the winning Florida-bred mare In a Dream, by Quality Road and was bred in Florida by Valerie Mastromonaco, Tristan de Meric and Uncle Mo Syndicate. 

My Miss Mo has been labeled as the co-second choice on the morning line for the Black-Eyed Susan with 7-2 odds. She will be ridden by Tyler Gaffalione from the outside post 10.

Trainer Victor Barboza Jr. has Majestic Lucia making her first start in black-type company after winning a first level, $75,000 optional claiming for fillies going a mile-and-40-yards at Tampa Bay Downs on April 4. Owned by Elena Racing Stable and Carga Inc., the lightly-raced Majestic Lucia has won two of three career starts including an eight-and-a-half-length devastation of $50,000 optional claiming maiden fillies going seven furlongs at Gulfstream on February 27. The dark bay or brown daughter of McKinzie was fifth after a slow start in her introduction race going six-and-a-half furlongs at Gulfstream in late January. 

Bred in Florida by Monarch Farms Inc., Majestic Lucia has earned $65,390 in three races. She was an $85,000 purchase by Majestic as an agent out of the 2024 Keeneland September Sale where she was consigned by Colin Brennan Bloodstock but did not meet her reserve out of the Majestic consignment at the 2025 OBS Spring Sale.

Junior Alvarado, who rode her in her two races at Gulfstream, gets back aboard for the Black-Eyed Susan and they have post eight. Majestic Lucia is 12-1 on the morning line. 

Favored at 3-1 on the morning line is Jumping the Gun, who exits a third-place finish when upset as the 6-5 favorite by Black-Eyed Susan rivals Ivy Girl and A. P.’s Girl in the $150,000 Weber City Miss Stakes at Laurel on April 18.

Luis Saez will ride Jumping the Gun for trainer Steve Asmussen from post seven.

Ivy Girl is 15-1 on the morning line and will be ridden from post two by Victor Carrasco. Irad Ortiz Jr. takes the call on A. P.’s Girl from post nine and. They are 5-1 in the program.

Also entered are Miss Fulton Gal with jockey John Velazquez, Flavien Prat rides Holly’s Holliday, Savor It will have Mychel Sanchez up, Braken Poppa will be ridden by Jose Ortiz and Haute Diva has Keith Asmussen with the riding assignment.

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