Bucchero filly sharp in 2nd career start at Gulfstream

Bucchero’s seventh winner this year is Meetmeatthebeach, a promising 3-year-old filly bred by Superbad Stables who followed up a runner-up finish in her debut with a wire-to-wire beauty to break her maiden at Gulfstream Park yesterday.

Jockey champ Irad Ortiz was in the irons for the filly’s second trip, which came at 5 1/2 furlongs over the Tapeta surface. In her debut, Meetmeatthebeach, a $25,000 OBS January 2-year-old, showed she’s the real McCoy, finishing second by a neck at odds of 5-1 in a five-furlong Tapeta race that went in :56.63.

In her maiden-breaker, Ortiz shot her to the lead leaving the gate and Meetmeatthebeach held off several challengers through fractions of :22.38 and :45.77. At the top of the stretch she opened up daylight and was never threatened, reaching the wire a length in front clocked in 1:04.24, and paying $3.60.

The check for $30,700 lifted her two-race total to $40,270.