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Mardi Gras Futurity(RG2) Recap
Webcast coverage of the 2023 $365,080 Mardi Gras Futurity(RG2) by StallioneSearch.com was sponsored by the LQHBA.

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Mardi Gras Futurity(RG2) Recap

by Greg Thompson, Stallionesearch.com

BOSSIER CITY, LA–MARCH 25, 2023–StallioneSearch.com was on hand at Louisiana Downs to bring our users webcast coverage of the $365,080 Mardi Gras Futurity(RG2).

The 300-yard event featured 10-Louisiana bred two-year-olds going postward in the restricted-grade two event.

Janessa Muniz trained Eyesa Just Pretty, a two-year-old Carters Cartel filly owned by Blackmon Quarter Horses LLC, was the fastest qualifier going into the finals in Bossier City, Louisiana.

Rogelio Marquez, Jr.'s Apollitical Blood filly San Lorenzo Blood posted an impressive race to take home a winner's purse valued at $164,286. Jesus Marquez saddled the winner ridden by jockey Rolando Cabrera.

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Coverage of the Mardi Gras Futurity(RG2) is sponsored in its entirety on Stallionesearch.com by the Louisiana Quarter Horse Breeders' Association.  The 2023 LQHBA Yearling Sale is scheduled for August 4 & 5, 2023 in Kinder, Louisiana at the Coushatta Casino and Resort.   The LQHBA Awards and Membership Banquet to owner the champion Louisiana-Bred runners of 2022 is set for April 22, 2023, at the Evangeline Downs Event and Convention Center in Opelousas, Louisiana.