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By Michael Cusortelli
NEW MEXICO BREEDERS’ OAKS (R)
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Diabolical
Full Moon Tonight
Artax
Bonnie Byerly
Storm Cat
Successfully
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 stakeswinning
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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