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Heritage Place Juvenile Invitational
GOOD CAPTAIN PEPPER
by Michael Cusortelli
A$7,500 purchase at last year’s Texas Quarter Horse Association Yearling Sale, Good Captain Pepper rewarded his connec- tions with a neck victory in the $100,000 Heritage Place Juvenile Invitational at Remington Park on June 4.
Good Captain Pepper covered 350 yards in :17.436 while earning a 91 speed index and his first career stakes win.
Jimmy Brooks rode the bay
gelding to a driving finish
for owner Carlos Lozano of
Universal City, Texas, and
trainer Eddie D. Willis.
Good Captain Pepper was coming off of a 1-length score in the last of 12 Heritage Place Futurity-G1 trials on May 13, the first night of the trials.
Bullard Farms of Weatherford, Texas, bred the gelding. Good Captain
Junos Request Stakes
Pepper is the first stakes winner produced
by Poise N Pepper, a 2-time winner who
ran third in the 2009 Gulf Coast Four-Star Trailer Stakes. A Bullard Farms’ homebred, Poise N Pepper is the dam of 100% money earners from her two starters and is a 1/2-sis- ter to Grade 1 winner Poise N Power. Good Captain Pepper traces back to his fourth
dam, multiple stakes winner Trouble String.
Raced exclusively in Oklahoma this spring, Good Captain Pepper has now won three of his four starts.
The $29,070 winner’s share of the Heritage Place Juvenile Invitational boosted his bankroll to $90,000. The gelding’s resume also includes a third-place finish in the 300-yard $420,000 Oklahoma Futurity-G3 on March 26.
Runner-up Pv Eye Desire Candy (Desirio- Eye On The Candy) dueled valiantly for the wire, but was outfinished. He was trained by Clint Crawford for owner Gordon Pevehouse. Ivan Carnero rode the homebred gelding.
Although he stumbled at the start, El Carretonero G 3 (Pyc Paint Your Wagon-Deer Oh Deer) finished strong and ran third for owner Gregorio Garcia Garza. Esgar Ramirez rode the homebred gelding for conditioner Rolando Almanza.
Miss Freigttrain Z (Freighttrain B-Ms Appropriations) finished fourth and was fol- lowed by Eagle Stone (Pyc Paint Your Wagon- Tiny First Down), Nsm Skydancer (Pyc Paint Your Wagon-Jessthelouisianagirl), My Painted Wagon (Pyc Paint Your Wagon-My Girl Jessie), and Eyes A Racin (Favorite Cartel-Miss Racy Eyes).
Remington Park $100,000 • 350 yards :17.436 • si 91
Mr Jess Perry
Captain Courage
Corona Chick
GOOD CAPTAIN PEPPER, ‘14-g.
Truley First Class
Poise N Pepper
Poise N Grace
THIS CANDYS AWESOME
by Danny Camp
This Candys Awesome has had a great career. The five-year-old mare, who had won four stakes races coming into this event, put more icing on her cake winning the $104,400 Junos Request Stakes at Remington Park on June 4.
This Candys Awesome broke from the 5-post with a strong drive and immediately went to the front. Leading at every call with Ivan Carnero in the irons, This Candys Awesome crossed the wire a
neck in front. She stopped
the timer at :19.496 for a 96
speed index.
With first place money of $63,300, This Candys Awesome increased her total bankroll to $434,481 for owner PV Quarter Horse Farms, LLC and trainer Clinton Crawford.
This Candys Awesome was bred in Oklahoma by Carl Pevehouse. She is out
of winner Jess Send Candy. The mare has produced 100% money earners/ROM from seven starters, with earnings of well over
two million dollars. Her top money earner is 2-time Champion Jess Good Candy, winner of the 2015 All American Futurity-G1. She is also the dam of New Track Record setter & multiple stakes winner Send Me This Wagon.
“This mare is easy to train and has absolutely no soundness
issues,” stated trainer Clint Crawford. “She has paid her way. She was the last of three embryos and the best of the three.
“She’s done now and will retire to the breeding shed,” Crawford continued. This Candys Awesome came from the PV Quarter Horse Farm, and that’s where she will retire. They are great people to work for and I feel
blessed to work for them. Training for them has been life changing for me.”
The betting favorite Sudden Separation (Inseperable-Okie Dokey Annie) finished sec- ond. Her team includes owner Duane Murphy and trainer Larry Sharp. James Flores was handling the reins.
Bye Bye Birdy (Hawkinson-Sweet Bye And Bye) finished third under Daniel Torres for owner Barbara Barley and trainer Larry Sharp.
Mavara Vegas (FDD Dynasty-Jess Like Vegas), Political Debut (Apollitical Jess- Sizzling Lola), AJ Hardwood (Hard Hitting- Lady Woodbridge), Marys Coronitas (Corona Cartel-Inbetween Dances), Rock Princess (Rock Solid Jess-A Classic Serenade) and Adashinrose (Furyofthewind-Pats Special Rose) completed the order of finish. I Cant Help It was scratched.
Remington Park $104,400 • 400 yards :19.496 • si 96
Corona Cartel
Pyc Paint Your Wagon
Dashin Follies
THIS CANDYS AWESOME, ’11-m.
Mr Jess Perry
Jess Send Candy
Send Me The Candy
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