Sweet Brown Sugar improves to 5-for-6 at Finger Lakes in Monday’s Jack Betta Be Rite Stakes. SV Photography.
Richie Rich Stable’s Sweet Brown Sugar continued to show her fondness for Finger Lakes Monday afternoon with a dominating victory over older fillies and mares in the $50,000 Jack Betta Be Rite Stakes.
Facing elder females for the first time in stakes company, the 3-year-old daughter of Collected improved to 5-for-6 at Finger Lakes in the 1 1/16-mile Jack Betta Be Rite. Trained by Paul Barrow and ridden by Jeremias Flores, Sweet Brown Sugar won by 7 lengths over Midtown Lights. Final time over the fast track was 1:47.74.
The 1-5 favorite in the field of eight, Sweet Brown Sugar settled in third early as longshot Saloon Girl set the pace ahead of Inouaintalkintome through the opening quarter-mile in :23.92 and half in :48.45.
Sweet Brown Sugar vied for the lead around the far turn and took over before hitting 6 furlongs in 1:13.82. She drew off from there, widening her advantage to 4 1/2 lengths in midstretch past the mile in 1:40.83. Midtown Lights finished a clear second as the 7-2 second choice under Manny Franco, 1 3/4 lengths ahead of 25-1 longshot Shezanarcticqueen with Waitwaitdonttellme fourth.
Sweet Brown Sugar earned $30,000 for the victory and improved to 7-for-11 with a second and a third with earnings of $244,400. She’s won five of nine starts this season, including the East View Stakes in March at Aqueduct and the Niagara Stakes in June at Finger Lakes.
The victory in the Jack Betta Be Rite came 12 days after Sweet Brown Sugar won a 5 1/2-furlong allowance-optional over older fillies and mares at Finger Lakes. She finished second in the New York Oaks and sixth in the Fleet Indian at Saratoga Race Course in her two prior starts.
Bred by Chester and the late Mary Broman and foaled at their Chestertown Farm in Chestertown, Sweet Brown Sugar is the first and only foal out of the winning Bodemeister mare Rachel’s Blue Moon. The winner of two of 11 starts and $97,096, Rachel’s Blue Moon raced for the Bromans as a second-generation homebred for the eight-time leading breeders in the Empire State.
Rachel’s Blue Moon is out of the Grade 1-placed stakes-winning El Corredor mare Beautiful But Blue, who is out of the multiple stakes-winning $523,927-earning Dixie Brass mare Beautiful America.
Beautiful But Blue, third in the Grade 1 Test Stakes at Saratoga in 2012 and winner of three New York-bred stakes on the NYRA circuit that season, is also the dam of stakes-placed Montebello. Beautiful But Blue won five of 17 starts and earned $395,450. Beautiful America won six of 21 starts and earned $523,927 for the Bromans from 2002 to 2004.
Sweet Brown Sugar originally sold for $10,000 through the Sequel New York consignment at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. She was then offered as part of the Scenic Sales consignment at the 2023 OBS June sale and brought $32,000 from Nick Hines, agent for Richie Rich Stables.
