Trainer Rob Atras reported that Maracuja, winner of the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks in July at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., will get about 60 days of rest and relaxation at Jim and Susan Hill's Margaux Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.
Atras said he is targeting a spring-to-summer return for the sophomore daughter of Honor Code, who handed leading 3-year-old filly Malathaat her only loss in the CCA Oaks three starts back. Maracuja was previously seventh in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks following a second-place finish in the Grade 3 Gazelle at Aqueduct.
“She'll get roughly 60 days and start some light training before coming back,” Atras said. “She hasn't had a break since late in her 2-year-old year, so we decided to give her one.”
Owned by Beach Haven Thoroughbreds, Medallion Racing, Parkland Thoroughbreds, and Barry Fowler, Maracuja was a troubled fourth last out in the Grade 1 Cotillion on September 25 at Parx Racing in Bensalem, Pa., finishing 3 ¼ lengths behind Clairiere.
“Things just didn't work out her way,” Atras said. “Unfortunately, she got bumped at the break forcing her down to the rail and she doesn't like to be there. She ran a good race, but she just didn't quite have it.”
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