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record of 15-8(5)-1(1)-2(2). The Drapers sent her to Burns Ranch in California, where she lived alongside her dam, Super Perla Negra, and another top Draper mare, One And Onea.
Jenuine Joy’s first foal was by Louisiana Senator, a five-time stakes winner who had also retired at the end of 2011 with $599,408 banked after returning to the winner’s circle for eight of 20 starts. The resulting foal, Senator Joy, made six starts but only hit the board once, earning $1,180.
The next year, Fredda upped the ante and sent Jenuine Joy to 2008 Champion Three- Year-Old Colt One Famous Eagle.
“The year I bred her and Super Perla Negra to One Famous Eagle, Carl was a little iffy about that,” Fredda remembered. “But his stud fee was about $8,000 then, and I thought, ‘He’s bred too good not to take a chance on,’ and that is how we got Imperial Eagle.”
Through embryo transfers, Jenuine Joy produced three foals in 2014 – Imperial Eagle, Political Mess (by Apollitical Jess), and Walk Off (by Walk Thru Fire). All three were money-earners at two in 2016. Political Mess made $7,764 while winning two
races, including a trial to the All American Futurity-G1 and running in the Dash For Cash Futurity-G2, while Walk Off won one of six starts and made $11,811. But by far, Jenuine Joy’s standout performer was Imperial Eagle.
Sold for $40,000 at the Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale, Imperial Eagle raced for 83-year-old owner Chuck Robinson and trainer Tony Sedillo in 2016. Imperial Eagle started his race career with a second in the trials to the West Texas Futurity-G2 and then crossed the wire fifth, but was placed second via multiple disqualifications in the finals.
Moving to Ruidoso Downs, Imperial
Eagle won trials to both the Ruidoso and Rainbow futurities, but didn’t qualify for either
Fredda and Carl Draper
finals. That changed two weeks before Labor Day, when Imperial Eagle notched his third career win at Ruidoso in the All American Futurity-G1 trials by setting the overall fastest qualifying time of :21.499 in the last of 15 trials on the first of two days of qualifying races.
Carl Draper never got to see Imperial Eagle race or qualify for the All American Futurity-G1; the Ruidoso Downs Racehorse Hall of Fame inductee suffered a heart attack and passed away at home on Dec. 21, 2015.
In the winner’s circle after the All American trials, Fredda tearfully said, “This one’s for you,” as she pointed toward the heavens. “This is the best day I’ve had in a long time.”
Things got better on Labor Day when Imperial Eagle won Quarter Horse racing’s most prestigious prize, the All American Futurity-G1 by a neck. The gelding wasn’t done there, though. After picking up his $1.5 million paycheck, he entered back in the Hobbs America Futurity trials, where he broke poorly in an eighth-place non-qualifying effort.
Imperial Eagle returned two more times in 2016, winning the Southwest Juvenile Championship-G1 on Dec. 4 and then the Sunland Park Winter Juvenile Championship on New Year’s Eve. His exploits earned him $1,721,507 for the year and the titles of Champion Two Year Old and Champion Two-Year-Old Gelding.
Jenuine Joy’s third crop – Bolt Of Fire and Fyrefly Jo, both by Walk Thru Fire – are of racing age this year. Fyrefly Jo, owned by Burns Ranch’s Steve Burns and named after his wife, Jo Burns, made her first start on May 14, beaten by just a neck while running third in a maiden race at Los Alamitos. Bolt Of Fire, a $120,000 sale yearling last year, had his second gate work on May 8.
This year, yearling buyers may get a chance at a colt by Louisiana Senator, a
colt by Walk Thru Fire, or a filly by First Moonflash, while Jenuine Joy’s 2017 crop was expected to include foals by Hes Relentless and Favorite Cartel.
Jess Send Candy
A year before Fredda Draper stood in the Ruidoso Downs’ winner’s circle and acknowledged the part her late husband had played in getting there, another family did the same thing. In 2015, the Pevehouse family paid homage to patriarch Carl Pevehouse, whose influence was felt by everyone as Jess Good Candy won the All American Futurity-G1.
“This is truly a blessing for us and it’s a tribute to my husband, who worked so hard to get this candy line going,” Rozella Pevehouse told Speedhorse after the All American Futurity-G1. “He’s wanted this, and I wish he had been here to see it.”
Carl lost his battle with cancer on April 26, 2014, making Jess Good Candy one of the last horses he bred. At one time, Carl told Rozella to sell all the horses should anything happen to him. Rozella didn’t listen. If she had, the All American story might have had a very different ending.
Instead Rozella downsized, cutting the 67-head herd down to a more manageable number that she and daughter Cheryl could manage. Cheryl has always been involved with the horses and has a special affinity for Jess Send Candy, the dam of Jess Good Candy, after nearly losing the mare. Several years ago, during a brief racing career,
Jess Send Candy stepped on a stick that punctured her back hoof.
“We brought her home. Dad and I worked and worked to save her,” said Cheryl. “We tried to get it healed up and keep her from getting laminitis in the other back foot.
I remember changing that bandage and soaking that foot.”
The treatments worked, but Jess Send Candy never went back to the racetrack. She retired after four starts with one win and a second-place finish in a 300-yard Black Gold Futurity trial.
Due to her hoof injury, Jess Send Candy’s breeding career has always been via embryo transfer, which has made her a prolific producer. Her first crop in 2011 resulted in four foals: Jess Send Me Candy, Send Me This Wagon, Send Your Candy, and This Candys Awesome, all by PYC Paint Your Wagon. All are money earners, and two are stakes horses and New Track Record setters.
Send Me This Wagon has banked $179,310 with 10 wins from 20 starts, including
the 2014 Canterbury Park Derby, 2015 Canterbury Park Distaff Bonus Challenge, and 2016 AQHA Members Plus Stakes. Earlier this year, she was second in the Charger Bar Handicap-G1 at age 6. Her accomplishments were matched and then exceeded by her sister. This Candys Awesome earned $434,265
and has five stakes wins to her credit. This Candys Awesome’s stakes wins came in the Remington Park Oklahoma Bred Derby-RG3, Decketta Stakes-G3, Easy Date Handicap, Higheasterjet Handicap-G3, and Juno’s Request Stakes-G2. Her last race to date was in June 2016.
Following such a blowout season, Jess Send Candy had just one foal in 2012, the PYC Paint Your Wagon mare Honeymoon Candy. Like her full siblings, she raced successfully, amassing a record of 18-5-2-8 with a stakes win in the Prairie Meadows Distaff Challenge. She was stakes-placed in the Canterbury Park Derby, and Remington Distaff Challenge twice in 2016 and 2017. Her earnings stand at $90,906 and counting, as she is still actively competing.
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