Winning Again is Winning Cause's First Winner

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From BloodHorse.

(May 26, 2021) The 3-year-old colt won May 21 at Hipodromo de Las Americas for Cuadra Colibri.

Second-crop California sire Winning Cause sired his first winner May 21 at Hipodromo de Las Americas when his son Winning Again captured a maiden claiming sprint by three-quarters of a length.

Bred in California by Linda Madsen out of the stakes-placed Wild Again daughter Mini Skirt, Winning Again now has a win and two seconds out of seven career starts for owner Cuadra Colibri. Mini Skirt is the dam of six winners out of 10 to race.

Vino Roso – Winning Again showed determination in wearing down five challengers in a 2 1/2-furlong sprint that went an opening quarter in :22. He closed strongly to stop the timer in :27 2/5 and held off a late rally by Nogales , who was 2 1/4 lengths ahead of Pierrot.

Colibri bought Winning Again for $1,500 at the 2020 California Thoroughbred Breeders Association January Mixed Sale out of the Havens Bloodstock Agency consignment.

Winning Cause is a grade 2-placed, multiple grade 3 winner by Giant’s Causeway out of the Kingmambo winner Raffishing Look. He won or placed in 13 black-type stakes, with victories in the 2013 Coolmore Lexington Stakes (G3), 2014 Cliff Hanger Stakes (G3T), and 2015 Red Bank Stakes (G3T). He was also runner-up in the Hagyard Fayette Stakes (G2) at Keeneland. He retired with a 6-7-3 record from 27 starts and earned $645,734.

Winning Cause retired to stud at Madsen’s Milky Way Farm near Temecula, Calif., where he stands this year for $2,000