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Motion Of Grace’s winning connections include owner/breeder Francisco Garza, trainer Juan Diaz Jr. and jockey Victor Urieta Jr.
“Once Victor asked her a little bit, she really just pulled away and then cruised,” Garza said of the wire-to-wire victory.
Garza was also proud of second-place Kas Debut GL, owned and bred by his family’s Garza Laurel Partnership LLC.
“That is the most difficult thing to do,” Garza said of the one-two finish.
Garza, who lives near San Antonio, Texas, has been in racing since 1981. He currently has about 12 horses in training and keeps them with several different trainers.
“Most of these trainers we’ve known forever,” said Garza. “Juan’s one of the newest guys that we’ve given horses to, but Jose Sanchez, who ran second with our filly, I’ve probably known him for 35-40 years. These guys have to make a living, so we spread these horses around a little bit.”
Motion Of Grace is a pretty gray filly, “very classy looking,” Garza said.
“She’s much like her mother,” he added. “She’s still physically a little bit immature. She’s just starting to come around. She showed a lot of promise from the very beginning. She is a little bit hot-blooded, but once she gets in the gate, she doesn’t move. She’s waiting, ready to go.”
Garza has had Motion Of Grace’s family for several generations. He raced Beauclare, Motion Of Grace’s third dam and a winner at Remington Park and Retama Park. Beauclare was a full sister to stakes winner and stakes producer Crown Of Laurels.
Beaukas, Motion Of Grace’s second dam, finished third in the 2006 Manor Downs
Futurity-G1 and Retama Park Futurity-G1 for the Garza family. All of her black-type foals also ran for them: stakes winners Kas Tempting, Beaus Famous, Kas Famous, and Jumpn Beau Chick, as well as stakes-placed Kas Shes EC.
Jumpn Beau Chick is a daughter of Jumpn Chic, the sire of still another good Garza performer, Tee Chic. That gelding won the 2015 Oklahoma Futurity-G2. During her racing career, Jumpn Beau Chick captured the 2012 TQHA Sires’ Cup Derby-RG3.
Jumpn Beau Chick has produced six winners from eight starters,
including stakes-placed Jess
Jumpn Beau.
“She’s a good producing mare,” Garza said. “It
just seems that every generation’s given us a good running horse.”
Garza said that he has a yearling full sister to Motion Of Grace and a foal on the way by Flying Cowboy 123 out of Jumpn Beau Chick.
Arturo Alvarez rode second-place Kas Debut GL (Kas Tempting-Political Debut). In four previous races, Kas Debut GL won once, ran second once, and ran third twice.
David Bustamante trains third-place Lightning Trend (Mr Piloto-Cash Cartel) and
owns him with Angelo Potts. Guadalupe Lucio Jr. rode the gelding, who had earlier won two of four races.
Completing the field were Woopaa123 (Flying Cowboy 123-Chalinashake), Won For Da Money (PYC Paint Your Wagon- Won Way Street), San Lorenzita (Ivan James-Dashnunder Afullmoon), Serious Eagle Rising (One Dashing Eagle-Serious Ground), Flashing Goodtime (Duponte- Let Me Dream Longer), and Regardlezz (Favorite Cartel-Apollitical Regard). B Second Cowboy was scratched.
Jockey Victor Urieta Jr celebrates the win.
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