Ag Bullet (Twirling Candy) and Sweet Azteca (Sharp Azteca), a pair of Grade I winning gray mares trained by Richard Baltas, will continue their racing careers, according to a report from the Daily Racing Form.
Currently a 5-year-old, Ag Bullet notched her first top-level score this past summer when she took on the boys in the GI Jaipur Stakes at Saratoga.
After hitting the board in the GI Prevagen Breeders's Cup Sprint at Del Mar in 2024, the Calvin Nguyen & Joey Tran color bearer finished as the runner-up to Shisospicy (Mitole) in the 2025 version.
Ag Bullet was entered in the Fasig-Tipton November sale last week, but she RNA'd for $2.9-million.
According to the Daily Racing Form article, the nearly $3-million earner will be nominated by her owners for the upcoming Nov. 30 running of the GI Matriarch Stakes at the seaside oval, a race she ran third in last year.
Sweet Azteca wins the Rancho Bernardo | Benoit
As for Sweet Azteca, who is also a 5-year-old, she was scratched by the Breeders' Cup regulatory veterinarians after developing a right front issue. The Pamela Ziebarth homebred was intended for the GI PNC Bank Filly & Mare Sprint.
Baltas told the Daily Racing Form that the mare also had an entrapped epiglottis that recently required a minor procedure.
Sweet Azteca won the GI Beholder Mile Stakes at Santa Anita as a 4-year-old, and this season she captured both the GII Great Lady M Stakes at Los Alamitos in early July and the GIII Rancho Bernardo Handicap at Del Mar in late August.
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