Buchu Retired, To Visit Not This Time

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Rigney Racing LLC homebred Buchu (Justify–Flowering Peach {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}), a graded winner over the Keeneland turf course at two and three, has been retired from racing and will be bred to leading sire Not This Time in 2025, according to a post on X from Denali Stud's Conrad Bandoroff.

Third in a pair of tries on the dirt to begin her career under the care of trainer Phil Bauer, Buchu–who was bought back on a bid of $275,000 at Keeneland September in 2022–was a troubled sixth in her turf debut at Saratoga in August 2023 before impressively breaking her maiden in her next appearance at Churchill Downs. A convincing winner of the GII Jessamine Stakes 16 days later, Buchu was an even sixth to Hard To Justify (Justify) in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf before calling it a season. Victorious in the GII Appalachian Stakes to kick off her 2024 campaign, she was a sound second in the GIII Regret Stakes two starts later and failed to handle an off track when unplaced in the rained-off Pago Hop Stakes at the Fair Grounds Dec. 28.

Buchu, one of three graded winners and seven black-type winners bred on the cross of Justify over Galileo, is the first foal out of a winning daughter of dual Grade III-winning turf distaffer Naples Bay (Giant's Causeway), also the dam of Flowering Peach's full-sister First Minister (Ire), who was victorious in the 2023 G3 Prix Hocquart for Michael Tabor and Andre Fabre. Her great-granddam Cappucino Bay (Bailjumper) counts the outstanding MGISW and top sire Medaglia d'Oro among her four winners. The resulting foal would carry 2×4 inbreeding to Giant's Causeway.

Buchu retires with a record of 3-1-2 from 14 starts and earnings of $642,270.

 

 

 

Full circle moment as Rigney Racing homebred BUCHU returns home to @DenaliStud where she will start her next chapter as a broodmare. A graded stakes winner at 2 and 3, she will visit Not This Time. pic.twitter.com/ahYWrr417Z

— Conrad Bandoroff (@CBandoroff) January 30, 2025

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