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REMINGTON PARK
Junos Request Stakes (G1)
CAT DADDYS LIL GIRL
Cat Daddys Lil Girl began her 5-year- old campaign with a second-place finish, a 1/2-length behind winner Kiss Thru Fire,
in the $100,000 Charger Bar Handicap (G1) at Los Alamitos. All told, the mare has
won nine of 19 races, including four stakes, and she has earned $465,158.
Paint Me Tres finished third, a head behind runner-up Macs Lady M. Kiss Thru Fire, Ritas Back On Track, Amandas Flashy, BV Sheslikethewind, Magnificat, Kieva, Relentless Jessie, and Diamond And A Half completed the order of finish.
Runner-up Macs Lady M is a California-bred daughter of the
Favorite Trick (TB) stallion Favorite Cartel racing for Jorge Magallanes. A $26,000 yearling buy at the 2018 Los Alamitos Equine Sale, the sorrel four-year- old filly has won two of 14 races and has banked $83,926.
Paint Me Tres is a homebred sophomore daughter of Champion Tres Seis campaigned by Summer Hill Farms LLC. The Iowa-bred filly has won four of eight outs and has earned $133,614.
Cat Daddys Lil Girl, a homebred 5-year- old mare racing for Jimmy Negrete and Jimmy Vasquez, broke sharply from post 6 and scored a wire-to-wire victory in the May 29, $128,240 Junos Request Stakes (G1) for distaffers at Remington Park.
Prepped by Jason Giles and sent to post as the 4-5 favorite in a field of 11 fillies and mares, Cat Daddys Lil Girl covered 400 yards in :19.695, and her margin of victory was a neck from Macs Lady M. Noe Garcia Jr. rode the 5-year-old New Mexico-bred mare, who banked $76,476 from her first open Grade 1 win.
Cat Daddys Lil Girl was stretching out in distance off her head victory in the 350-yard, $75,480 Easy Date Stakes at Remington Park on April 17. The gray mare’s two stakes wins during the Remington meet earned her the meet’s Champion older female title.
She found another gear and said, “Bye Bye,” stated Garcia when asked to describe Cat Daddys Lil Girl’s trip in the Junos Request. “We won easier today, and I think she has way more in the tank. She’s going to have a good career.”
Cat Daddys Lil Girl’s sire, Big Daddy Cartel, is a 12-year-old son of the Holland Ease stallion Corona Cartel. Racing exclusively at Ruidoso Downs in 2011, the gray stallion earned $121,800 from five starts and was a finalist in that season’s All American (G1) and Rainbow (G1) futurities.
From six crops, Big Daddy Cartel has sired the earners of more than $10.2 million, including multiple graded stakes winner and 2017 All American Futurity (G1) runner-up Bigg Daddy and multiple graded stakes win- ners Mamacita Cartel and Daddys Blushing. A half-brother to stakes winner Racy La Jolla, the stallion is owned by and stands
at Mac and Janis Murray’s MJ Farms at Veguita, New Mexico.
Cat Daddys Lil Girl is out of Girlonthego, a nine-year-old daughter of Man On The Move who was purchased by Negrete and Vasquez for $20,000 at the 2013 New Mexico-Bred Sale and won the 2014 Zia Futurity (G1) at Ruidoso Downs.
Cat Daddys Lil Girl traces back to her third dam, Kiptys Wish, a winning Kiptys Charger mare who ran second in the 1991 Fiesta Derby at Bandera Downs in Texas.
Story by Michael Cusortelli • Photos by Orona Photography
Big Daddy Cartel
Corona Cartel
Miss Racy Eyes
Girlonthego
Man On The Move
Devons Wish
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