Turf Stakes Winner Miz Mayhem Targeting $100,000 Stormy Blues

Turf Stakes Winner Miz Mayhem Targeting $100,000 Stormy Blues

Florida-Based Filly Breezed Three Furlongs in :36.03 Wednesday
Stormy Blues, $75,000 Concern Stakes Share Saturday, July 7 Card
 
LAUREL, MD – Multiple stakes winner Miz Mayhem breezed three furlongs at her home base of Gulfstream Park Wednesday morning for an expected start in the $100,000 Stormy Blues Saturday, July 7 at Laurel Park.
 
The 5 ½-furlong Stormy Blues for 3-year-old fillies is the richest stakes on Laurel’s summer calendar. It will be joined on the program by the $75,000 Concern Stakes for 3-year-olds going seven furlongs on the main track.
 
Miz Mayhem, trained by Eddie Plesa Jr. for his wife, Laurie, was timed in 36.03 seconds over a fast main track, ranking third of 13 horses at the distance. It was the first work since the sophomore daughter of Yesbyjiminy captured the five-furlong Nicole’s Dream Stakes June 10 at Gulfstream to run her win streak to four races.
 
“She worked well and did it easily,” Plesa said. “We’ll see how she is tomorrow and make our final decision, but we’re learning toward it.”
 
Plesa said Florida-based rider Edgard Zayas, aboard for each of the last six starts, will ride in the Stormy Blues. Together they also won the five-furlong Cedar Key Stakes April 27.
 
Miz Mayhem owns five wins, two seconds and two thirds with $203,825 in purse earnings from 12 career starts. She has trained and raced exclusively in South Florida since last fall after making her breaking her maiden in front-running fashion on dirt at Parx and finishing fourth in the off-the-turf Colleen Stakes at Monmouth Park last summer.
 
“You take horses out of this climate and send them up there, even though it may be warm up there there’s a coolness where you don’t have the humidity that you have down here. It works in their favor going north moreso than coming south,” Plesa said. “We’re in the process of making arrangements to ship her up there.”
 
A total of 25 horses were nominated to the Stormy Blues, named for the Cure the Blues mare that won four of 10 career starts in 1994 and 1995, three of them in graded-stakes, including the 1994 Matron (G1) and Selima (G3), the latter at Laurel Park.