Hipnotizada First Winner for Uncle Lino
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Hipnotizada breaks her maiden at Delaware Park
Hipnotizada became the first winner for first-crop sire Uncle Lino by powering to a 6 1/4-length score in a $47,225 maiden race for 2-year-old fillies at Delaware Park July 18. The romp came in her second start following a debut second there June 29.
The Anthony Pecoraro trainee went to the lead under Carol Cedeno, holding a narrow advantage with fractions of :22.37 and :45.97 before pulling away under left-landed urging. She completed 5 1/2 furlongs on a fast track in 1:04.29, including a final sixteenth in :06.18. She paid $2.60 to win as the odds-on favorite in the field of six.
Bred in Pennsylvania by White Diamond, Hipnotizada was a $40,000 purchase by her owner, Mark Esposito's Black Cloud Racing Stable, at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Midtlantic Fall Yearlings Sale from the Bill Reightler consignment. She is the fourth winner out of the Harlan's Holiday mare Precious Penny.
Uncle Lino, a 7-year-old son of Uncle Mo , won the California Chrome Stakes as a 3-year-old at Los Alamitos Race Course in 2016 for trainer Gary Sherlock, who owned him in partnership with Tom Mansor and Purple Shamrock Racing. That year the colt also placed in the Robert B. Lewis Stakes (G3) and the Santa Anita Derby (G1) and concluded his racing career with a seventh-place finish behind Exaggerator in the slop in that year's Preakness Stakes (G1). He was retired with two wins from eight starts and earnings of $316,160.
His unraced Orientate dam, Haysee, is a half sister to 2011 Preakness winner Shackleford—one of five stakes winners produced from his second dam, Oatsee.
Uncle Lino entered stud in 2017 and stood for a $4,000 fee this year at Northview PA in Pennsylvania.