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Make Mo Mine earned her second win from as many starts when winning the Muckleshoot Juvenile Filly Stakes at Emerald Downs on Sunday, Sept. 6. The third choice in the field of six, she drew clear to win by three and three-quarter lengths .

Under jockey Frank Alvarado for Tom Wenzel, the all-time winningest stakes trainer at Emerald Downs, Make Mo Mine broke to find herself in fifth early before rallying four-wide and taking the lead over favorite Mattie Goincoastal, a two-time stakes winner, at the eighth pole. From there, with Mattie Goincoastal fading, Make Mo Mine quickly pulled away and completed the six and a half furlongs on the main track in 1:17.75.

Winner of a five and a half-furlong maiden special weight at Emerald Downs on Aug. 22 by three and a half lengths, Make Mo Mine has earned $40,610 for owner George Todaro.

Bred by the late A. Leonard "Lenny" Pineau and his wife Pat, both Maryland veterinarians, Make Mo Mine, consigned by Eaton Sales, sold for a modest $20,000 in the 2025 Keeneland September Yearling Sale to agent Bob Cappelletti.

From the first crop of Belmont Stakes-G1 winner Mo Donegal, Make Mo Mine is his first stakes winner. The bay filly is the third foal, and first winner, for the Pineaus' stakes-placed homebred Discreet Cat mare Steamy Hot.

Steamy Hot is one of 10 winners for her dam Wood Not, a daughter of Kissin Kris the Pineaus claimed late in her career for $14,000 at Timonium in 2005. Wood Not is out of the top-notch Maryland-bred racemare Wood So, a five-time stakes winner of $530,155, with three of her stakes wins coming in graded company, topped by the 1992 Barbara Fritchie Handicap-G2.

Wood Not produced six earners of more than $100,000, led by graded stakes winner Purely Hot. A 12-time winner of $426,905, Purely Hot eventually sold as a broodmare for $1.2 million at Keeneland, and has produced the likes of Grade 1 winners Eight Rings and this year's Santa Anita Handicap-G1 winner British Isles.

Another of Wood Not's runners, T Sizzle, made news in the early 2010s when recording his first wins. Racing for the Pineaus' Triple Tree Stable, he was named for Baltimore Ravens great Terrell Suggs, and went on to earn $248,913.

Steamy Hot made seven starts in her career, winning three and placing second twice, including the 2019 Shine Again Stakes. Her first foal, a 2021 filly by Accelerate, was never named. Her 2023 Union Rags colt, named In Seventh Heaven, sold for $25,000 as a Keeneland yearling and has placed in three of his five starts in Panama.

Steamy Hot has not had a foal since Make Mo Mine. Wood Not delivered her last reported foal, colt by Dialed In, at the age of 24 in 2025.

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