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Rob Atras-trained Maracuja, has been retired from racing as she sustained a non-surgical small fracture to her right front ankle in her last start, when she was eased by jockey Kendrick Carmouche in the listed Lady Jacqueline Stakes at Thistledown, according to Atras' wife and assistant, Brittney Atras.
Maracuja proved herself last summer when she ran ahead Malathaat, the champion 3YO filly of 2021, by a head in the Coaching Club American Oaks (Gr.1) at Saratoga Race Course. She also ran second to the eventual winner, Grade 1-winning Search Results in the Gr.3 Gazelle Stakes that year, and later went over to the Gr.1 Longines Kentucky Oaks, where she finished seventh of 13 as Malathaat and Search Results ran 1-2.
"She helped elevate our training operation and she took us to some pretty amazing places," Brittney Atras said. "She's definitely extremely special and we all miss her a lot."
Maracuja was a US$200,000 purchase by Jason Servis, agent, from Buck Pond's consignment to The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton's select yearling sale in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and was campaigned through her first six starts by Beach Haven Thoroughbreds.
She was bred in Kentucky by River Bend Farm, Austin Musselman, and Janie Musselman out of the Unbridled's Song mare Patti's Regal Song.