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Top runners out of
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2016 freshman sire Giorgino, shown winning the 2010 TQHA Sires’ Cup Futurity-RG2
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Jorge with one of his top-producing mares, Las Alamitos, winner of over $200,000 and an All-Time Leading Dam of over $1.2 million.
The Louisiana Cartel also sired Louisiana Cricket, out of Royal Quick Dash daughter Quick Lil Cricket, the Texas Quarter Horse Association Yearling Sale high-seller in 2015 at $140,000.
“I was at Sam Houston when the Quarter Horse meet started last March and all his first-time starters were winning,” says Martha Claussen, who met the Haddad family during her 10-year stint as publicity director at
Sam Houston Race Park. “I don’t think the Haddads ever dreamed The Louisiana Cartel would be as successful as he’s been as a stallion. But as a racehorse, the way he exploded from the starting gate was phenomenal. It’s been tremendously exciting to watch and wonderful for the whole family.”
Ragazzo, by Shazoom and out of the Haddads’ great producer Las Alamitos, by First Down Dash, earned $559,500 in two years on the track, racking up seven wins (two stakes) from 14 starts, with two seconds and one third. Ragazzo won the $1 million Heritage Place Futurity-G1, Oklahoma’s richest race, in 2009. He then claimed
the winner’s circle in the Manor Downs Derby-G3 and earned a finals slot in the Sam Houston Derby-G2.
BRILLIANT BROODMARES
When filling out his 20-mare brood
band for Haddad Ranch, Jorge says, “I pick broodmares by mare power. A stallion breeds 120 mares and gets maybe one, two or three big winners each year. But a mare only has
one or two babies, so she has to produce good ones.” Two of his best-producing mares are Las Alamitos and La Jolla Rocket.
The 1994 mare Las Alamitos is by First Down Dash and out of Easy Jet daughter Easy Henryetta, making her a full sister to the great sire Holland Ease, Champion Four Forty Blast, and stakes placed Brisco County Jr. A multiple graded stakes placed mare, Las Alamitos won $202,480 in her three-year career on the track with a 22-5-6-2 record.
Las Alamitos produced Jorge’s multiple graded stakes winning sire Ragazzo (by Shazoom); multiple graded stakes winner Giorgino (by Apollo); stakes winner/graded stakes placed Features Lucky Charm (by Feature Mr Jess); graded stakes placed Potenzza (by Mr Jess Perry); and stakes placed Las Pink Panther (by Panther Mountain).
La Jolla Rocket (Streakin La Jolla – Holme By Rocket, Rocket Wrangler) built a graded stakes winning record of 4-2-1-0,
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