Despite being dismissed high odds and trailing the field throughout most of the race, Ivy Girl made it two straight Stakes wins for her connections when just getting up at the wire to win the $150,000 Weber City Miss Stakes at Laurel Park on Saturday, April 18.
The victory was the second straight Stakes win for the three-year-old Maxfield filly, following her similar last-to-first score in the Main Line Stakes at Parx on March 3. The win also earned Ivy Girl an automatic berth in the G2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes over the same course next month.
Ivy Girl broke last of all in the one-and-one-sixteenth mile contest and was content to cruise along in that spot as the field approached the half-mile mark. Jockey Victor Carrasco started to ask his charge for more at that point, and as the field approached the far turn, he and Ivy Girl began to weave their way between rivals for the stretch run. It wasn't until the final strides that she was able to reel in A. P.'s Girl and earn a half-length win.
Bred by Farfellow Farms in Kentucky, Ivy Girl is out of Stakes-placed Critikal Reason and is a half to Black-Type winner and G1-placed Bajan (dam of Stakes-placed Jubilee Bridge), and to G3-placed Virtual Machine. This is also the family of Eclipse Champion and G1 Breeders' Cup Distaff winner Forever Unbridled, G1 Kentucky Oaks winner Lemons Forever and G1 Ballerina Stakes winner Unbridled Forever.
In addition to Ivy Girl, Maxfield's other runners include Del Mar Stakes winner Max Ciao, G1-placed Five Bars, Gun Runner Stakes runner-up Liberty National and Del Mar Stakes-placed Cosmic Heat.
Maxfield's fee for the 2026 breeding season is $50,000, live foal.
