Lilies N Paradise flew home and got her nose in front on the wire to become the second winner for her exciting freshman sire, Maxfield, in a MSW at Churchill Downs on Friday, 6 June.
Making her career debut in the four-and-a-half-furlong maiden special weight contest for fillies, Lilies N Paradise tracked the leaders into the far turn, swung to the outside, and closed strongly through the stretch to graduate at first asking.
Bred in Kentucky by St. Simon Place, Lilies N Paradise is out of the winning Yes It's True mare Why Oh You, dam of G2 Chandelier runner-up Electric Ride.
Maxfield won the G1 Breeders’ Futurity as a juvenile and the G1 Clark Stakes at four. In between he won four more Graded races, including the G2 Alysheba and the G2 Stephen Foster. He also notched G1-seconds in the Woodward and Whitney. Never off the board in 11 career starts, he retired with lifetime earnings of over $2 million.
Maxfield is standing at Jonabell Farm for $40,000 stands and nurses.
