OAKLAWN H. (gr. II ), Oaklawn Park , April 13, 2013 , $500,000 Guaranteed , value of race $500,000 , 4 yo's & up , 1 1/8 miles , 1:49.67 Dirt FT .

Cyber Secret capped off a perfect season at Oaklawn Park this year with a 53/4-length win in the April 13 Oaklawn Handicap (gr. II). Track owner and president Charlie Cella’s star runner made it four-for-four at Hot Springs, Ark., and raised his career earnings to $552,564.

The bay son of Broken Vow—Stomping, by Dixieland Band, has now won six times out of 14 lifetime starts. He is the first winner and first stakes winner for his dam, who was sold at the 2011 Keeneland November breeding stock sale in foal to Tiz Wonderful for $17,000 to Barry Butzer’s Sun Valley Farm. The mare was sold by Brandon and Diannah Perry’s Paragon Farms.

The Perrys bred Cyber Secret, who was sold for $110,000 as a weanling at the 2009 Keeneland November sale to agent Ben Glass. The colt raced a couple times for owners Gary and Mary West in 2011 then wound up in trainer Lynn Whiting’s barn in the ownership of Cella.

Cyber Secret’s female family is the carefully crafted handiwork of Jane du Pont Lunger’s Christiana Stables. His fourth dam is the blue hen Witching Hour, who produced grade I winner Broom Dance (the dam of graded stakes winner End Sweep), and other stakes winners Pumpkin Moonshine, Tingle Stone, and Salem.

Stomping, who was in the money eight times out of 13 starts and earned $83,311, is a half sister to stakes winner Open Toe (by Proud Truth) and a full sister to stakes-placed Beat Your Feet.

While Stomping has only produced one winner to date, Cyber Secret’s success does seem to validate what breeders have long recognized in this family—that concentrating on the influences of Nearco and Hyperion produces winners. Open Toe, the best runner of Stomping’s dam Foot Stone, is a product of this blend. Foot Stone is inbred 2x4 to Turn-to, a grandson of Nearco, while Proud Truth was inbred 4x4 to Hyperion.

Cyber Secret is inbred 3x4 to Northern Dancer through Broken Vow’s dam Wedding Vow and through Stomping’s sire Dixieland Band. Northern Dancer’s sire Nearctic is a son of Nearco and his broodmare sire is Hyperion. Other Nearco influences in Cyber Secret’s pedigree come through the inbreeding in Foot Stone to Turn-to and through Nearco’s great-grandson Blushing Groom (Wedding Vow’s broodmare sire).

Broken Vow has had six stakes winners in 2013, three of them new added-money winners—Cyber Secret, Conquestor, and Forever Fixed (Pan-I). The Pin Oak Stud stallion has 57 career stakes winners. He stands for $25,000.—E.J.M.

RAZORBACK H. (gr. III ), Oaklawn Park , March 09, 2013 , $150,000 Guaranteed , value of race $150,000 , 4 yo's & up , 1 1/16 miles , 1:44.80 Dirt FT .

Cyber Secret took some time to mature before reaching his full potential, but the 4-year-old colt made his trainer Lynn Whiting and owner Charles Cella proud when he outlasted Golden Ron by a head in the March 9 Razorback Handicap (gr. III) at Oaklawn Park.

It was the third straight victory for Cyber Secret. In all, the son of Broken Vow now holds a career record of 5-1-0 from 13 starts, for earnings of $252,564.

Cyber Secret was bred in Kentucky by Brandon and Diannah Perry’s Lexington-based Paragon Farms. The couple bought Cyber Secret’s dam Stomping as a 2-year-old for $50,000 at the 2002 Keeneland November mixed sale. The daughter of Dixieland Band was consigned by Jane du Pont Lunger’s Christiana Stable through Walnut Green, agent.

Stomping, who earned more than $80,000 for Paragon during her race career, is out of the stakes-winning Cyane mare Foot Stone. Her second dam, Hecate (by Ack Ack), is a half sister to grade I winner Broom Dance and other graded stakes winners Pumpkin Moonshine and Tingle Stone.

Stomping produced some good sales horses for Paragon, including her first foal Winning Dixie (by More Than Ready), who fetched $180,000 as a yearling.

Cyber Secret also performed well in the auction ring when he brought $110,000 from Ben Glass, agent, as a weanling at the 2009 Keeneland November mixed sale.

“He was a fantastic foal from day one; that’s why we sold him as a baby,” Brandon Perry said of Cyber Secret. “He had good substance and bone, and was strong. He was exactly what we were hoping for (from the mating with Broken Vow and Stomping).”

Paragon sold Stomping while carrying a foal by Tiz Wonderful for $17,000 to Barry Butzer’s Sun Valley Farm at the 2011 Keeneland November mixed sale.

“She’s a Dixieland Band mare and I always thought there were no bad ones,” explained Butzer. “I also saw that (Cyber Secret) had sold well and I hoped he would materialize and come along…I guess the stars line up every once in awhile.”

Stomping’s youngest foal is an Unbridled’s Song filly, born March 7.

Broken Vow is the sire of 56 stakes winners. Among his four 2013 added-money winners is group victor Forever Fixed (Pan-I). Broken Vow stands for $25,000 at Josephine Abercrombie’s Pin Oak Stud near Versailles, Ky.—E.M.