MARJORIE L. EVERETT H. (gr. II ), Betfair Hollywood Park , May 18, 2013 , $150,000 Guaranteed , value of race $150,250 , 3 yo's & up , 1 1/16 miles , 1:44.01 All Weather Track FT .

Carroll Castille recently bought a 20% interest in 10 horses owned by Michael Moreno’s Southern Equine Stables. Castille raises horses in Louisiana in the name of Whispering Oaks Farm, which is also the name under which he races them. Luckily for Castille, the Southern Equine package included Open Water, a multiple graded stakes-placed filly who won her first stakes in the May 18 Marjorie L. Everett Handicap (gr. II) at Betfair Hollywood Park.

Eric Guillot trains for Moreno, and he pointed Open Water for the Hollywood meeting because she likes a synthetic surface. A third partner, Mike Smith, also owns a piece of the filly.

“I gave her two months off in January because she was a little tired,” Guillot said. “I sent her to Kentucky and turned her out in a paddock. She’s only been back for seven weeks. I’m taking my stable to Saratoga this summer, but I’ll probably ship her back for the Clement L. Hirsch (gr. I) at Del Mar.”

Open Water became the second consecutive Everett winner by Include following Include Me Out, the 2012 winner. Include Me Out also won last year’s Clement L. Hirsch Stakes. On the turf at Del Mar in 2012, Open Water finished second in the San Clemente Handicap (gr. IIT) and third in the Del Mar Oaks (gr. IT). Guillot said that with her Everett victory, Open Water may have raced herself into eventual inclusion in the Southern Equine broodmare band.

“She’s got a good pedigree,” noted Guillot. “Her second dam is Flanders.”

Flanders won the Eclipse Award as the champion 2-year-old filly of 1994. She in turn produced another champion, Surfside, voted an Eclipse as the best 3-year-old filly of 2000. Flanders also produced stakes-placed Flanders Fields, a full sister to Open Water’s dam, Biscayne Bay (by A.P. Indy). Biscayne Bay has three other winners, including Folha in Brazil.

In addition to Open Water, Include has sired 2013 stakes winners Infrattini and Include the Baby, plus 26 other stakes winners. The stallion stands at Brereton Jones’ Airdrie Stud near Midway, Ky., for a 2013 stud fee of $12,500.-—T.G.

SANTA MARIA S. (gr. II ), Santa Anita Park , February 16, 2013 , $200,000 Guaranteed , value of race $200,000 , 4 yo's & up , 1 1/16 miles , 1:43.08 Dirt FT .

Great Hot returned to her winning ways in grand fashion. The daughter of Orientate held off the challenge of 11-10 favorite Book Review in deep stretch in the Santa Maria Stakes (gr. II) at Santa Anita Park Feb. 16 to post her third career stakes win. The half-length victory ended a 13-race losing streak extending back to the fall of 2011.

Although Great Hot was foaled in Brazil, she boasts a North American-style pedigree. Her sire is Eclipse Award winner Orientate and her first two respective dams, That’s Hot and Catchy (a full sister to grade I winner and leading sire Hennessy), were bred in the name of William T. Young’s Lexington nursery, Overbrook Farm.

Great Hot, who races for her breeder, Coudelaria Jessica, competed once in Brazil, scoring by 31/2 lengths, before heading to North America and arriving in late 2010.

Great Hot boasts a North American record of 4-3-5 from 20 starts and earnings of $534,097. She has won or placed in 11 stakes, with her other black-type wins coming in the Lexus Raven Run Stakes (gr. II) at Keeneland and the Torrey Pines Stakes at Del Mar.

Coudelaria Jessica is owned by Luiz Fernando Dannemann and named in honor of his daughter Jessica. “Coudelaria” means stable in Portuguese.

That’s Hot was purchased carrying Great Hot by Alberto Figueiredo Neto, agent, for $75,000 at the 2007 Keeneland November breeding stock sale from the consignment of Legacy Bloodstock, agent. She was sent in foal to Brazil the following year.

Great Hot was consigned to the 2012 Keeneland November mixed sale shortly after finishing ninth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (gr. I) but was withdrawn. She raced once more that year, finishing third in the Kalookan Queen Stakes at Santa Anita Dec. 29, and then ran fourth in the Paseana Handicap at Santa Anita Jan. 13. Her trainer, A.C. Avila, indicated that he would point Great Hot to the $300,000 Santa Margarita Stakes (gr. I) at 11/8 miles March 16.

A son of Mt. Livermore, Orientate has sired 35 stakes winners including eight that won stakes in 2012. Orientate is standing his first season at Northview Stallion Station near Chesapeake City, Md. His fee is $5,000. He formerly stood at Gainesway Farm near Lexington.—D.S.