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.

( ), Oaklawn Park , March 24, 2013 , $55,500 Added , value of race $55,500 , 4 yo's & up , 1 1/16 miles , 1:47.13 Dirt GD .