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 I) but was withdrawn.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.