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NEW MEXICO BREEDERS’ OAKS (R)
By Michael Cusortelli
pINK CADIl l AC
Diabolical
Artax
Bonnie Byerly
Full Moon Tonight
Storm Cat
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Pink Cadillac, a homebred dark bay or brown daughter of Diabolical owned by J. Kirk and Judy Robison of El Paso, Texas, scored her first stakes win in the March 26, $100,000 New Mexico Breeders’ Oaks (R) at Sunland Park.
Ridden by Ken Tohill for trainer Joel Marr and sent to post at odds of 7-1 in the field of seven state-bred sophomore fillies, Pink Cadillac went 1 1/16 miles
in 1:45.73, and her winning margin was
a neck from multiple stakes winner and 2-5 favorite Sippin. The $60,000 winner’s share of the purse increased the filly’s bankroll to $115,200.
Pink Cadillac was making her first
start since January 22, when she finished second, 2 1/2 lengths behind Sippin, in the 1-mile, $85,000 Enchantress Stakes (R) at Sunland. The filly is one of 87 winners from five crops sired by Diabolical, a multiple graded stakes winning 14-year-old son of the Marquetry stallion Artax.
Racing in five different countries from 2005-09, Diabolical won nine
of 32 starts and earned $1,467,401, and his six stakes victories included
the 6-furlong, $260,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (G2) at Saratoga in ’07. Diabolical has sired eight official black-type stakes winners and the earners of more than $5.1 million from
108 starters.
Diabolical is a half brother to What
A Name (IRE), a Mr. Greeley filly who won two Group 3 stakes in France from 2012-13. The stallion is owned by Fred Alexander and J. Kirk Robison, and he stands at Fred and Linda Alexander’s A&A Ranch at Anthony, New Mexico.
Pink Cadillac is also one of five winners from six starters produced Full Moon Tonight, a 15-year-old Virginia-bred daughter of Storm Cat. The filly’s third dam, the Nijinsky II mare La Confidence, foaled two stakes winners: Flawlessly, a nine-time Grade 1 winner from 1991-
94 and the sport’s champion female turf horse in 1992 and ’93, and Perfect, the winner of the 1995 Ascot Handicap (G3) at Bay Meadows.
Pink Cadillac’s fourth dam, the Round Table mare La Dame Du Lac, produced five stakes winners in Europe, including Group 3 winners Lake Como and Single Combat. Pink Cadillac traces back to her fifth dam, Cosmah, a stakes- winning Kentucky-bred daughter of the Pharamond II stallion Cosmic Bomb who foaled four stakes winners, including Halo, a two-time graded stakes winner who won the $100,000 United Nations Handicap (G1) at Atlantic City, New Jersey, in ’74.
Pink Cadillac has won two of her nine outs, and her resume includes a third-place finish in last year’s 6-furlong, $140,000 New Mexico Cup Lassie Championship (R) for state-bred 2-year-old fillies at Zia Park.
McAway ran third, 3 3/4 lengths behind Pink Cadillac, and was followed by Frosty, Ivy Gimlet, Rolling Star, and Forgivnessis Pwr.
Sippin is a homebred daughter of the Swiss Yodeler stallion Swissle Stick campaigned by R.D. Hubbard. The chestnut filly has won seven of nine starts, and her five stakes victories include last year’s open 6-furlong, $50,000 Permian Basin Stakes at Zia Park. The $22,000 runner-up share of the New Mexico Breeders’ Oaks purse upped her earnings to $348,547, of which $268,047 was banked during her 2-year-old season.
A homebred filly by the Medaglia d’Oro stallion McKenna’s Justice, McAway races for Tom and Sandra McKenna’s Judge Lanier Racing. McAway has won one of two starts and has earned $19,480.
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