Bam’s Bliss Kiss win the Biogio’s Rose Sunday for her sixth straight victory. Coglianese Photo.
Mad Dog Racing Stable’s Bam’s Bliss Kiss extended her win streak to six in her return to stakes company in Sunday’s $135,000 Biogio’s Rose at Aqueduct.
The 4-year-old daughter of New York-based sire Solomini added the 1-mile Biogio’s Rose to her victory last time out in the $80,000 Videogenic on last month’s Winter Claiming Championship card at Aqueduct. Trained by Jorge Abreu, Bam’s Bliss Kiss won the Biogio’s Rose by 8 1/4 lengths under regular partner Jaime Rodriguez.
“She ran huge; they’ve got a nice filly,” Rodriguez said. “She’s awesome. She’s improving every race she runs. We both get along, and we know each other. The first day, I said, ‘man, I love this filly.’ Then I rode her again and I said, ‘oh, I know how you like to run.’ I love her. She’s little, but she’s got a big heart.”
Abreu and Mad Dog Racing claimed Bam’s Bliss Kiss for $45,000 out of a victory in a 6 1/2-furlong state-bred optional claimer on New Year’s Eve at Aqueduct. She’d won her previous two starts for trainer Linda Dixon – at Finger Lakes Nov. 13 and at Aqueduct Dec. 10.
“I saw that she was winning for another trainer before my claim,” said Mad Dog Racing’s Larry Dorman. “She had already won the New York-bred non-winners of two condition. They put her back in for the tag. I figured the worst thing would be that I put her back in for the non-winners of two condition for the tag. Jorge Abreu did an amazing job. He got her to run some incredible numbers.”
Bam’s Bliss Kiss won her first start off the claim in an open-company optional claimer at 7 furlongs Feb. 13 at Aqueduct before her victory in the 6-furlong Videogenic. She successfully stretched out to the 1-mile trip Sunday, going to the lead shortly after the start.
Bam’s Bliss Kiss vied with favorite Collect the Data out of the chute and through the opening quarter-mile in :23.80, just ahead of Sweetest Princess and Sweet Brown Sugar. Bam’s Bliss Kiss, the 4-1 third choice in the field of seven, opened up a bit to the half in :47.15.
“I was a little bit worried because she had never run a mile,” Rodriguez said. “…The only thing that worried me was if someone came running out of there like a maniac and pressed me all the way. She broke good, and the two horses outside me got a little bit of speed, but when she got the jump in front of everybody, I said, ‘no, I’m going to let you do your own thing, free.’ She loved that. Once I let her run her own race, she got big in front.”
Collect the Data made progress on the leader to the far turn and into the bend, getting within a neck of Bam’s Bliss Kiss. The challenge proved short-lived, with Bam’s Bliss Kiss opening up again approaching the stretch and going past 6 furlongs 2 1/2 lengths clear in 1:12.41.
Bam’s Bliss Kiss poured it on through the lane, zipping past the eighth pole 6 1/2 lengths clear. Sweet Brown Sugar put in a mild rally in the stretch to finish second, a neck ahead of Midtown Lights with Walk With Me fourth. Lika Rolling Stone, Collect the Data and Sweetest Princess completed the field. Bam’s Bliss Kiss won in 1:38.22 over the fast track.
“This is just something,” Dorman said. “I never really expected to get a horse like this who could just keep on winning. Today, she did something she’s never done before going one mile. She did it so easily. I’m super happy. She is one of the best claims I’ve ever made.”
Bam’s Bliss Kiss improved to 7-for-18 with the win and boosted her bankroll to $404,540.
Bred by Torie Gladwell, Bam’s Bliss Kiss is the second foal out of the Into Mischief mare Kiska. She’s also the dam of the winning New York-bred Sharp Azteca mare Perfectly Mperfect.
Kiska is also also the dam of a yearling full brother to Bam’s Bliss Kiss, a 2-year-old New York-bred filly by Mind Control and the unraced 3-year-old New York-bred King for a Day filly Brighton My Day, a $50,000 purchase by Clear Stars Stable and Mitre Box Stable at last year’s OBS April sale. Brighton My Day breezed a half mile in :51.02 Sunday on the Belmont Park training track.
Bam’s Bliss Kiss also gave Solomini his seventh stakes winner and second of 2026, joining Say Florida Sandy winner National Identity. Solomini, an 11-year-old Grade 1-placed son of Curlin who stands for $7,500 at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, came into Sunday as the leading sire in New York with nearly $1.5 million in progeny earnings.
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