Two more winners for Bucchero, he surpasses $1 million in earnings

A pair of 3-year-olds with widely different resumes were victorious on Sunday, giving Bucchero his eighth and ninth winners of 2023, while moving him up to sixth place on this season’s Florida general sire list, and raising his progeny earnings for a little more than one year to $1,005,496.

Ms. Bucchero – Winner of the final race on the Tampa Bay Downs Florida Cup Day program, the filly bred by Pamela Edel had finished a creditable second in her career debut with Jose Batista aboard just 15 days earlier. In her maiden–breaker, again under Batista and at odds of 6/5, Ms. Bucchero sizzled on the lead in :22.04, :44.70 and :56.85, reaching the wire four lengths in front in and putting an eye-catching 1:09.58 on the teletimer. It was worth $19,760.

Toddchero – Bucchero’s leading money-winner also went wire-to-wire, this one at Sam Houston in Texas, and collected a check for $21,360. The twice stakes-placed colt bred by GDS Racing Stable, a $77,000 OBS April purchase, raised his bank account to $120,020 on a record of 2-2-4 in 10 starts. He won by half a length under Lane Luzzi, getting a mile in 1:38.93, and paid $11.40.