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here that Favorite Cartel was the sire of the 2015 All American Futurity finalist Crooked Path, who was the second fastest qualifier. She has a similar pedigree pattern to Jess Good Candy, line breeding to First Down Dash with a 5 X 4 breeding pattern.
Favorite Trick was on the road to success as a Quarter Horse sire when tragedy struck. The stallion barn that housed Favorite Trick and five other stallions was destroyed by fire. The other stallions lost that night included Thoroughbreds Saratoga Six and Gone Hollywood, as well as the Quarter Horses Fredricksburg, Southern Cartel and The Down Side.
The sire of Favorite Trick was Phone Trick by Clever Trick. Phone Trick was out of Over The Phone by Finnegan. Phone Trick was the winner of five stakes races, with three run at 6 furlongs and the other two at 7 furlongs. He was noted for his speed. Clever Trick was the winner of four stakes, all at six furlongs, and one at 7 furlongs at two. He came back at three to win two stakes in the Bachelor Stakes at six furlongs and the Thomas D. Nash Memorial Handicap at one mile. He won the 6-furlong Gravesend Handicap at four. Another speed specialist.
Favorite Trick was out of Evil Elaine by Medieval Man. Evil Elaine was a stakes winner
in the Coronado Stakes, earning $119,727. Her sire, Medieval Man, was a stakes winner of three stakes with one run at 5 1/2-furlongs and two at 6 furlongs. The sire of Medieval Man was Noholme II, who is the sire of The Signature and Shirley’s Champion, both influ- ential sires in the racing American Quarter Horse world. Distinctive Elaine was the dam of Evil Elaine. Distinctive Elaine was sired by Distinctive, who was the winner of four stakes races including the 6 furlong Gravesend and the 6 furlong Rumson Handicap.
The pedigree design of Jess Good Candy reminds me of how Hank Wiescamp, the AQHA Hall of Fame breeder, worked his breeding program. Wiescamp started his breeding program by line breeding to horses like Plaudit and Old Fred. He would always be on the lookout for outcross sires. He would bring these outcross stallions in, and they usu- ally came from the racing side of the industry. Here are a couple of examples. He used 3-time AQHA Racing Champion Rukin String,
a son of 2-time Quarter Horse Champion Piggin String TB, and he was out of the
great World Champion race mare Queenie. He crossed this horse on his mares and then added the desired foals back into his program. One that was successful was Slippa String, a
horse that ran AAA and sired some good all around foals for Wiescamp when he placed him back in the breeding program.
A second example comes from his wanting to put the breeding of the Thoroughbred mare Lena’s Bar into his program. Lena’s Bar was the dam of the great Easy Jet and Jet Smooth. He tried to buy Jet Smooth, but didn’t get
him bought. He bred one of his Wiescamp linebred mares to Jet Smooth and got Smooth Coin, the 1973 AQHA Racing Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. By out crossing like this, he would give the line breeding program a boost with hybrid vigor, and it would help him maintain his line breeding program. This is what Favorite Trick was doing in our industry. Giving it a boost as an outcross on the promi- nent lines we have in our industry today.
The sad part is that Good Reason SA followed his sire and died in 2012 after one breeding season. The good news is that, with a limited number of foals, Good Reason SA is passing his branch of the Favorite Trick line on through horses like his All American Futurity winner Jess Good Candy.
The All American win is a fitting legacy for Carl Pevehouse and how a great family of horses has come into our breed through the efforts of this man and his “candy” horses.
Jess Good Candy’s breeder Carl Pevehouse, here with his wife Rozella and daughter Cheryl, got to see the horse born and as a yearling, but unfortunately passed away before the 2015 All American Futurity victory.
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