July 4th was a superb one for repeat wins in main stakes. In New York, Phileas Fogg romped to a second straight victory within the Suburban Stakes (G2) whereas, on the other coast, one other 6-year-old, Candy Azteca , topped that by claiming the Nice Girl M Stakes (G2) at Los Alamitos Race Course for the third consecutive 12 months.
Candy Azteca would not race fairly often, however she has proved mightily efficient when she does seem. In a profession that spans a bit of over three years, she has confronted the starter on simply 10 events and, in that point, has suffered solely two defeats. One was a 3rd within the 2024 Las Flores Stakes (G3), which got here in simply her second begin. The opposite was a fourth within the 2024 Chillingworth Stakes (G3), after which she underwent surgical procedure on her ankle. She has additionally had a foot challenge that sidelined her from the 2025 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Dash (G1), and final fall underwent a process to launch an entrapped epiglottis.
Along with her trio of victories within the Nice Girl M, Candy Azteca has additionally captured the 2024 Beholder Mile (G1), defeating the formidable Adare Manor , and two runnings of the Rancho Bernardo Handicap (G3), certainly one of which—the 2025 version—was her solely outing between her second and third wins within the Nice Girl M.
Candy Azteca’s sire Sharp Azteca  is a son of Freud , who’s a group-placed full brother to Large’s Causeway and a stalwart of the New York breeding program for greater than twenty years. A winner of eight of 17 begins over three campaigns, Sharp Azteca was a specialist miler. Over the course of his profession, he captured six black-type occasions, together with the Pat Day Mile Stakes (G3), Gulfstream Park Handicap (G2), Monmouth Cup Stakes (G3), Kelso Handicap (G2) and, on his penultimate outing, the Cigar Mile Handicap (G1), which he took in spectacular vogue, scoring by 5 1/4 lengths over Thoughts Your Biscuits and Sensible Joke  .
Picture: Coglianese Photographs/Viola JaskoSharp Azteca wins the 2017 Cigar Mile Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack
Retired to Three Chimneys Farm close to Halfway, Ky., for the 2019 breeding season, Sharp Azteca sired 5 stakes winners from 139 named foals in his first crop. Candy Azteca was the one graded scorer, however the precocious Tyler’s Tribe received his first 5 begins, 4 of them black-type occasions all at Prairie Meadows; Sharp Aza Tack and Alma Rosa captured juvenile stakes at Monmouth Park and Delaware Park, respectively; and Valuable Meadow was a a number of black-type winner in Puerto Rico at 3. Since then, Sharp Azteca has sired 203 foals from 4 subsequent crops (together with 2-year-olds of 2026), and only one—Queen Azteca , the Swedish-trained heroine of the 2025 UAE Oaks (G3)—has captured a black-type occasion. In October 2023, Sharp Azteca was offered to the Shizunai Stallion Station, Hokkaido, Japan, the place he has stood since 2024.
So Sweetitiz , the dam of Candy Azteca, received the Daisycutter Handicap and Mizdirection Stakes, each sprinting on turf in 2016. So Sweetitiz is out of Sweetitiz, an unraced daughter of El Prado, who didn’t produce anything of notice. The granddam of So Sweetitiz, Tizsweet, completed third in a Del Mar maiden particular weight and produced only a minor stakes-placed horse from 12 foals.
Tizsweet, nonetheless, was by Cee’s Tizzy out of Cee’s Tune, making her a full sibling to a number of notable performers and producers. That group is headed by Tiznow, Horse of the 12 months and champion 3-year-old for 2000, and 2001 champion older horse, and the one horse to seize two editions of the Breeders’ Cup Traditional (G1) in 2000-01. He narrowly defeated Freud’s brother Large’s Causeway within the first. Different siblings to Tizsweet to differentiate themselves on the monitor embrace Budroyale, a a number of graded stakes winner of greater than $2.84 million; the stakes-winning and graded stakes-placed Tizbud; and Tizdubai, profitable within the Sorrento Stakes (G2) and granddam of graded winners Cabo Spirit and Tarifa.Â
Two different sisters to Tizsweet, Tizso and Tizamazing, made no influence on the racetrack however distinguished themselves as producers. Tizso is the dam of three stakes winners, together with the 2012 Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) scorer Paynter ; and Tizamazing is the dam of Oxbow  , who took the 2013 Preakness Stakes (G1) the next 12 months. We must also notice Tizsweet’s successful half sister, You are Lovely (by Freud’s sire Storm Cat), is the granddam of 2021 Remington Park Oaks (G3) winner Girl Mystify .
The household traces again to Blue Canary, a half sister (from the identical fast sire line) to Crimson Devil, champion 2-year-old of 1961 on some polls, each being out of the imported Argentine-bred mare Papila. Moreover, a significant stakes winner at 3 and 4, Crimson Devil now seems most prominently in fashionable pedigrees by his daughter Crimson Saint, dam of Royal Academy and granddam of Storm Cat.
Blue Canary descends from the comparatively hardly ever seen B mitochondrial haplotype, and it’s possible that an accumulation of this mtDNA line has performed a major function within the success of Tizsweet and her siblings. Tizsweet’s third dam, Sleep Lonely, was by Pia Star, who additionally traced to the B mtDNA line. Cee’s Tune’s sire, Seattle Tune, is out of a mare by one other consultant of that line in Prince Blessed. Turning to Cee’s Tizzy, the sire of Tizsweet and her siblings, we see that he’s a grandson of In Actuality, whose sire and dam have been each from the B mtDNA household. There may be, due to this fact, a powerful chance that Tizsweet and her siblings have been homozygous for nuclear DNA combos that work together favorably with mitochondria from the B mtDNA line.
