SACRED WISH
A VARIETY OF AVENUES lead to opportunity in the Thoroughbred racing world. A broodmare may not have shown much on the racetrack, but is a successful producer because she hails from a family deep in talented runners. Or maybe she shows potential as the daughter of a prominent broodmare sire. Then, there are the slow-maturing foals that may get overlooked at a sale but ultimately reward their owners and trainers who made the investment in time and patience. These paths all converged for Sacred Wish, a now-5-year-old daughter of Not This Time who rose from gangly yearling and modest 2-year-old to become a graded-placed stakes winner at 3, and then ascended further to achieve grade 1 status in the Dec. 1 Matriarch Stakes (G1T) at Del Mar. Sacred Wish is the…