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One Sweet Sugar’s winning connections include owner/breeder Rogelio Marquez Jr., trainer Jesus Marquez and jockey Jasiel Aquino.
and running around the pasture as a weanling and a yearling and now seeing them run.”
It’s a family effort, with Marquez’s uncle, Jesus Marquez, training both horses. San Lorenzo Blood, who recovered to finish 4th and won the Mardi Gras Futurity-RG2, is one of the many good runners that Rogelio has named for his hometown of San Lorenzo in Mexico. Rogelio now lives in Texas, and breeds in Louisiana because of the excellent state-bred program there.
Rogelio says that the only reason One Sweet Sugar doesn’t carry the San Lorenzo name is that when it came time to register her, he had to rush the paperwork.
“I don’t know what I was thinking,” he said. “Everything else that I’ve raised is San Lorenzo. Her name should have been San Lorenzo Sugar. I wish she was San Lorenzo because that means a lot to me.”
One Sweet Sugar may not have the San Lorenzo name, but she has San Lorenzo talent. In her first start, she qualified for the Mardi Gras Futurity and was fourth in the final.
“Once this one hit the ground, I thought this one was a 440 horse,” said Rogelio. “Her mama is probably one of the biggest mares that we have in terms of size. We bred her to One Sweet Jess, and he is a big horse. In this game you kind of need the size sometimes, so I put size on size and I liked One Sweet Jess.”
The Mardi Gras was 300 yards, and Rogelio thought the extra 30 yards would help One Sweet Sugar in the Futurity. “The more distance the better with her,” he said. Marquez is in his third year of homebreds, and he got One Sweet Sugar’s dam, the Heza Fast Dash mare Sugarshaker B., via the claim box. “She comes from that old Bielau Oaks
breeding program,” he said. “They’re nationally recognized for being one of the best breeders.”
He remembered Sugarshaker B going through a yearling sale for $50,000, and he kept an eye out for her. The first time she was dropped into a claiming race, he claimed her for $10,000.” One Sweet Sugar is Sugarshaker B.’s first winner in 5 starters, but Marquez said he never gave up on the mare because of her class. Sugarshaker B is a 1/2-sister to Champion Teller Cartel.
Eyesa Just Pretty (Carters Cartel-Eye Craft TB) finished in second for Blackmon Quarter
Horses LLC, trainer Janessa Muniz, and jockey Sabino Reyes. MP Adored (Mr Piloto-Adored Bigtime) was third for Guerra Racing, trainer Gilberto Gonzalez and jockey Ali Rivera.
San Lorenzo Blood (Apollitical Blood-Ms Valiant Perry), India De La Nieve (BP Wagon Train-Chita Deniebe), Diamond Blood (Apollitical Blood-Shes Diamond Diva), Prom Queen NR (Inseperable-This Girls A Runaway), MP Thornado (Mr Piloto-Thorn Chicks), and Jambalaya Empress (Louisiana Jambalaya-AJ The Wig Splitter) followed. Thorn Chick was scratched.
One Sweet Sugar is led into the winner’s circle.
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