Caliente Racetrack

Three years ago, Saul Marquez brought a one-horse consignment to the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's April 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Under his Caliente Thoroughbreds banner, Marquez sold the colt by Solomini, purchased for $50,000 the previous September, for $700,000. It was a remarkable first pinhooking success for the third-generation horseman who had moved from California to Ocala just months before, but it has proven to be just the first of many, and the winning has continued from the sales ring right to the racetrack. That very first graduate became graded...