Sweet Azteca upsets Kopion, sets record at Los Alamitos

Sweet Azteca upsets Kopion_ sets record at Los Alamitos

CYPRESS — Sweet Azteca topped not one but two outstanding female sprinters when the 5-year-old mare won the strongest race of Los Alamitos’ early-summer thoroughbred season on Saturday. She outran Kopion, who came into the $200,000, Grade II Great Lady M. Stakes as the division leader and the bettors’ 1-5 favorite in a field of six fillies and mares. She also outdid herself, covering 6½ furlongs on Los Al’s dirt oval in a track-record 1:14.32 – …

Sweet Azteca upsets Kopion, sets record at Los Alamitos

CYPRESS — Sweet Azteca topped not one but two outstanding female sprinters when the 5-year-old mare won the strongest race of Los Alamitos’ early-summer thoroughbred season on Saturday. She outran Kopion, who came into the $200,000, Grade II Great Lady M. Stakes as the division leader and the bettors’ 1-5 favorite in a field of six fillies and mares. She also outdid herself, covering 6½ furlongs on Los Al’s dirt oval in a track-record 1:14.32 – …

Sweet Azteca upsets Kopion to repeat in Great Lady M at Los Al

The Grade 2, $200,500 Great Lady M Stakes proved to be a summer rerun. A year after Sweet Azteca established a track record for 6 1/2 furlongs in winning the race by five lengths, the 5-year-old gray mare outdid herself Saturday at Los Alamitos. Making her first start for trainer Richard Baltas and first since trailing as the 1-10 favorite in the Chillingworth (G3) on Oct. 5, Sweet Azteca defeated 1-5 choice Kopion by 1 1/2 lengths and, in the p…

Sweet Azteca Gets The Better Of Kopion In Great Lady Showdown

In a showdown between the top female sprinters in California, last year's GII Great Lady M Stakes winner Sweet Azteca (Sharp Azteca) returned to successfully defend her title Saturday defeating MGISW Kopion (Omaha Beach). One a four-race win streak last season for trainer Michael McCarthy which included a win in the GI Beholder Mile early in the year, the now 5-year-old mare changed barns to Richard Baltas after a poor showing as the heavy favor…