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Feature Mr Bojangles Flyingwitheagles Freakier
The decision paid off, as Jess Good Candy overcame a bumpy start in his trial to secure
a spot in the rich finals for his owner, the Estate of Carl Pevehouse. Overlooked in
the wagering at 10-1 on Labor Day, Jess
Good Candy ran a race that belied his odds, winning by a neck in :21.414. After the All American, Jess Good Candy had ankle surgery and, during his winter R&R, was named the AQHA Champion Two Year Old and AQHA Champion Two-Year-Old Colt.
Good Reason SA’s other stakes winners were Woop Dee Doo si 106 ($91,539) and Jess Good Reason si 90 ($59,282).
Woop Dee Doo was Good Reason SA’s first stakes winner in 2015. The gelding hit the board in all seven of his starts that year, winning three with three seconds and one third-place finish. His stakes win came at Indiana Grand Race Course, where he won the Heartland Futurity by an impressive 3-lengths for owner Ricardo Martinez. At Remington Park, Woop Dee Doo was second in the Oklahoma Futurity Invitational, and at Prairie Meadows, he was the runner-up in the Iowa Double Gold Futurity.
Jess Good Reason won the Holiday Handicap at Los Alamitos Race Course for owners John and Cina Sperry. The filly went undefeated in 2015, winning all three of her starts in California, and has started 2016 on a high note with a runner-up effort in the Los Alamitos Winter Derby-G1.
Good Reason SA’s ability to sire stakes horses follows his own talent on the racetrack. The 2007 stallion won a Grade 1 stakes race every season he raced, recording victories in the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity-G1, Golden
State Derby-G1, Champion of Champions-G1, and Los Alamitos Winter Championship-G2. He was named the AQHA Champion Aged Horse and Champion Aged Stallion in 2011, retiring with $1,446,727 in lifetime earnings.
His performance on the track is a direct result of a pedigree that is second-to-none
in Quarter Horse racing and represents a noteworthy outcross to the Thoroughbred stallion Favorite Trick. In the October 2015 issue of Speedhorse, pedigree expert Larry Thornton wrote, “Favorite Trick started his racing career being compared to the great Secretariat. Favorite Trick was the 1997 Horse of the Year, and the first two year old to win Horse of the Year since Secretariat did it in 1972. His two-year-old race record shows that he was eight-for-eight with a win in the Breeder’s Cup Juvenile-G1. He came back at three to win again, but was never able to carry his speed
over a distance.” (also see Larry Thornton’s Speedlines feature in this issue on Favorite Trick)
Favorite Trick started his breeding career
in Kentucky, moved to Florida, and then, fortunately for the Quarter Horse industry, found a home at JEH Stallion Station in New Mexico. His impact on the Quarter Horse world was immediate, though far too short-lived. In 13 crops, he sired the earners of more than $22 million before Favorite Trick was killed in a barn fire that also took the lives of five other stallions in June 2006.
On the bottom side, Good Reason SA is out of Queen Of Appeals, Samaja’s blue-hen mare who was the foundation of many of his best runners. Her pedigree pays tribute to one of the greatest breeding programs of all time,
Vessels Stallion Farm. Queen Of Appeals is out of Totally Illegal si 105, a brilliant mare who is sired by Tolltac by Beduino TB. Both Tolltac and Beduino stood at Vessels Stallion Farm in Bonsall, California.
David Payne campaigned Totally Illegal in the early 1990s, watching the mare win three stakes races including the QHBC Juvenile Classic-G1 and Governor’s Cup Futurity-RG2. She left the track with $147,160 in earnings and went on to produce 15 foals. Of those, three were stakes winners: Illegal Fireworks si 98 ($181,901), Rumor Had It si 103 ($68,552) and Queen Of Appeals si 99 ($83,988).
Queen Of Appeals is sired by First Down Dash and was bred by David Payne and Vessels Stallion Farm. Samaja bought her before she ever made her first start, and then enjoyed a win in the Charger Bar Handicap and stakes-placed finishes in the PCQHRA Breeders’ Futurity-G1 and Independence Day Handicap-G3. Queen Of Appeals made $83,988 prior to retiring in 1999.
As a dam, Queen Of Appeals has produced 17 foals, 15 of which have started and 12 of which are winners and ROM earners. In addition to Good Reason SA, she is the dam of Jabuti Eagle SA si 96 ($92,041), by One Famous Eagle, who was California’s High-Point Three-Year-Old Colt the year he won the Southern California Derby-G1; and Appeals King Special si 109 ($54,736), a stakes winner and multiple graded stakes finalist. Appeals King Special (by Strawfly Special) is a half-brother to Good Reason SA and is currently standing at stud in Brazil.
Queen Of Appeals is the granddam of Fantastic Corona Jr, who posted runner-up
Igotyourtac Indian Council TB Jazz Be First
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