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came to his mind again, and that’s how a filly he had at home was named Send Me Candy and the Candy line of horses was born. Pigott went on to explain that in this situation, Candy does not mean “the sweet sugary treat” but rather is a “euphemism for money.” Bring home the money, baby.
THE BIRTH OF A RACING FAMILY
We saw early on that Pevehouse liked the Vessels-bred horses, and this took him to breed Dough Gal to Tiny’s Gay by Tiny Watch, the sire of Gal Watcher. Tiny’s
Gay set the Quarter Horse racing world on fire in 1974 when he nearly pulled off the Ruidoso Triple Crown, which at that time included the Kansas Futurity, Rainbow Futurity, and All American Futurity. He fell short of the Triple Crown with a second in the All American. He won 12 of his
13 starts, including four stakes wins for
the year. In addition to the Kansas and Rainbow wins, he won the Tumblewood Futurity and the Bay Meadows Futurity. He would earn $444,721 and was the 1974 World Champion, Champion Stallion, and Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. He retired with an injury and did not race at three.
Tiny Watch was sired by the Thoroughbred Anchor Watch, and he was out of Clabber Tiny by Clabber II. Clabber II was sired by Clabber, the first stallion to be named an AQHA Racing World Champion. Clabber II was out
of Do Good. Clabber Tiny was out of Tiny Iny, a Thoroughbred mare who was unplaced in two starts. She was sired by Perifox by Gallant Fox and out of Tiny Rose by The Nut.
Tiny’s Gay was out of Gay’s Delight,
a AAA rated mare on the track with three wins in 11 starts. She was sired by Rocket Bar by Three Bars, and out of Miss Ginger Gay by Palleo Pete by Leo. The dam of Miss Ginger Gay was Ginger Gay by Bob E by Flying Bob. The dam of Ginger Gay was Clabber Lady by Clabber. This makes Tiny’s Gay double bred to Clabber with a 4 X 5 breeding pattern.
Send Me Candy went to the track to earn black type with a second place in the Mystery Derby. She would go first or second in 8 of her 14 starts and was the leading money earner out of Dough Gal. Her true calling was found in the Carl Pevehouse broodmare band where she produced 13 foals/ROM with nine of them earning a speed index of 90 or above. She produced three stakes winners and one stakes placed runner. Her runners earned $618,627. She
Good Reason SA, the sire of Jess Good Candy, won a Grade 1 race each year he raced, earned nearly $1.5 million, and was the 2011 Champion Aged Horse & Champion Aged Stallion.
Send The Gals Candy, shown here winning the 1988 Town Policy Handicap, was the first stakes winner out of Send Me Candy, winning three stakes and earning nearly $300,000.
Send Me The Candy, (#5) shown winning the 1996 Remington Park Futurity-G1, produced 18 ROM and is the second dam of 2015 All American Futurity winner Jess Good Candy.
Winter’s Red Dot. Moon Dough and Chad’s Doe Deer were bred by Chad Winter.
Dough Gal would become the dam of four ROM from seven starters. The ROM were Short Tail Gal by Chautos, Send Me Candy by Tiny’s Gay, Bouquets And Candy by Nip N Dude, and Pevehouse Candy by Seventy One North. Her leading money winner was Send Me Candy, the third dam in the tail female line of Jess Good Candy.
This is our first group of runners to carry “candy” as part of their name. Pevehouse told Pigott the following story about how that got started. “I had a horse running in Louisiana at that time named I Got Style. I was in a race at Delta Downs, and I was on the slope at the finish line, and there was a big guy standing down in front of me. Now this fella stood 6’3” or 6’4” and probably weighed 300 pounds. When they opened that gate here they come, the horse he was on was named See The Lady Go. And he was jumping up and hollering, ‘Come on See The Lady Go! See The Lady Go, baby! Send me candy! Send me candy!’ He just repeated it, and he’d jump every so often. We were laughing at him and trying to watch the race at the same time. My horse barely outran See The Lady Go, by a head, maybe. He turned around and come up beside me with his head slumped down and said, ‘There won’t be no candy today, baby.’”
Pevehouse further explained that on the way home, the name “send me candy”
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