Senora Acero First Winner for The Factor
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Senora Acero
The Factor was represented by his first winner July 9 when Senora Acero, a granddaugher of U.S. champion Riboletta, drove to a two-length triumph in the sixth race at Ellis Park.
A multiple grade I-winning sprinter by War Front out of the winning Miswaki mare Greyciousness, The Factor stands at Lane's End near Versailles, Ky. His 2016 was set at $25,000. He has 105 2-year-olds in his first crop.
The Factor won five graded stakes topped by the 2011 Malibu (gr. I) and Pat O'Brien (gr. I) and earned $922,180 in three seasons.
Martin Racing Stables' Senora Acero veered out at the start, but was settled in fifth in the seven-horse field for the one-mile maiden special weight race on the turf. Jockey Marcelino Pedroza angled her eight wide entering the stretch and she shot past the front-runner to secure a convincing win in 1:41.74 for trainer Bret Calhoun.
The bay filly was bred in Kentucky by Fazenda Mondesir International S.A from the winning Distorted Humor mare Riboletti, a daughter of 2000 U.S. champion older female and Brazilian classic winner Riboletta. Her owners secured her for $40,000 at the 2015 Keeneland September yearling sale, where Taylor Made Sales Agency presented her.