MARIA DE JESUS ANGULO

Stakes Highlights:

-Won Championship at Sunland Park in 2004 with Mongoose Jet Eye

-Won Vessels Maturity with Mongoose Jet Eye in 2004

      Maria de Jesus Angulo and her husband, Saul, have put together an impressive stable of horses at Los Alamitos. The couple from Las Vegas, Nevada, have been involved in Quarter Horse racing for less than three years but their stable already features champion aged horse Mongoose Jet Eye and stakes winner West Coast Okie.
      "Before we started owning racehorses my husband had roosters and would travel with them to wherever cockfighting was legal. We did both for a while but the time came that we had to pick one or the other. We decided to go with the horses. We still have showbirds but it is the horses that are taking most of our time now. My daughters all have ponies at our ranch in Pahrump, Nevada (which is 45 miles from Las Vegas). Our plan is to be even more involved with horses in the future and hopefully we can soon start our own breeding operation."
      The Angulos have been together since 1998. They have three daughters. Their first racing venture came with the Meters Honor, who was cared for by Adan Farias before switching trainers. "We had great success with Mr. Farias," she said. "We did well with him and now we are having fun with other trainers.  Mongoose Jet Eye is by far the best we've ever had. My nickname for her is Spoiled. She is actually the sweetest horse that we have. She is the most powerful horse that we have but she doesn't act like that at all. When she was having x-rays done my daughters we all around her and she wasn't bothered one bit. She is a sweet mare. Mongoose Jet Eye won the title of champion aged horse and champion aged mare after beating the boys in The Championship at Sunland Park and the Vessels Maturity. She all ran third in the Champion of Champions. All this is very exciting. We have always had confidence in her. From day one we knew she was going to be a big part of our family. We had 50 family members and friends here on the night of the Vessels Maturity. We had about 100 people for the Champion of Champions."