Una Palabra First Stakes Winner for McCraken
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Una Palabra wins the Arizona Oaks at Turf Paradise
Multiple graded stakes winner McCraken was represented by his first black-type stakes winner when Una Palabra captured the $80,000 Arizona Oaks March 11 at Turf Paradise.
The Arizona Oaks was the second-lifetime victory for Una Palabra, who broke her maiden in a $30,000 claiming event Jan. 25 at the Arizona track. The Vann Belvoir trained prevailed by a neck under jockey Harry Hernandez, timed covering a mile on a fast main track in 1:38.29.
Una Palabra upped her earnings to $73,305. She has been first or second in each of her four career starts.
Una Palabra is a homebred for Coal Creek Farm, who also campaigned her dam, the winning Dayjur mare One for You . The dam of 10 winners, One for You has also produced stakes winner Dedicated to You and stakes-placed Kartano . Born in Kentucky, Una Palabra failed to meet her reserve for $28,000 in 2021 at The July Sale at Fasig-Tipton in Kentucky when part of the Endeavor Farm consignment.
Second-crop sire McCraken retired to stud in 2019 at Airdrie Stud near Lexington. He entered Saturday as the 24th-ranked second-crop sire of 2023 after finishing 25th among first first-crop sires of 2022.
The 9-year-old son of Ghostzapper , a Whitham Thoroughbreds' homebred, is a half sister to graded stakes winner Four Graces , who sold for $2.3 million at the 2022 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale and graded placed Bondurant .
Video: Arizona Oaks (BT)