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Cheryl, Rozella and Carl Pevehouse
Pevehouse switched studs after that, opting to take Jess Send Candy to Good Reason
SA. Those two foals were born in 2013, and while Jess Good Candy overshadowed his full brother, Mr Candy Reason is also a winner and earner of $19,144 who is still racing.
“Jess Good Candy was foaled out here on the farm and he was probably one of 14 or 20 here born that year,” Rozella said. “He was just one of the guys on the place. We had no idea that he was going to be what he has become.”
Jess Send Candy’s only other registered foal is the 2015 filly Candy Cartels Candy, though Cheryl said Jess Send Candy has 2016 foals by First Moonflash and One Famous Eagle. Sired by Cartels Candy Man, Candy Cartels Candy represents linebreeding at its finest. Cartels Candy Man is sired by Corona Cartel and is out of This Candys Special, who is a half-sister to Jess Send Candy. Owned by PV Quarter Horse Farms LLC, the Pevehouse racing business name, Candy Cartels Candy has run twice this year, finishing second
in a maiden race and third in a trial to the Heritage Place Futurity-G1.
If you’re new to Quarter Horse racing and have never heard of the Pevehouse family, you might notice a pattern in the names that all contain the word “candy.” The recognizable moniker has branded Pevehouse’s program for decades.
“You can’t talk about Carl without talking about Send Me Candy, the daughter of Tiny’s Gay that started a racing dynasty over several years. They have just been dominant,” Lazy
E Ranch Manager Butch Wise said in a
2014 StallionESearch interview. “One of those mares was Dough Gal. Dad wanted to breed her to Tiny’s Gay, so he saved the $2,000
and took her to him that 1978 season. The resulting foal was a brown filly. He named her Send Me Candy.”
Send Me Candy, the first “candy” horse, was a stakes-placed winner who ended up being Dough Gal’s leading money earner
with $13,723 banked. Her true value became evident upon joining the Pevehouse broodmare band, where she produced 13 starters with earnings of $618,627. One of her three stakes winners was Send Me The Candy, a 1994 daughter of Leaving Memories.
Send Me The Candy won the Remington Park Futurity-G1 in 1996 and pocketed
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The winner, This Candys Awesome, finished the 330-yard race in :16.344,
knocking .04-seconds off the track record. She and her full sister Send Me This Wagon w w e e r r e e o o u u t t o o f f J J e e s s s s S S e e n n d d C C a a n n d d y y, , a a d d a a u u g g h h t t e e r r o o f f Send Me The Candy. Coincidentally, the old track record had been set by Jess Special Candy in 2011; Jess Special Candy was also o o u u t t o o f f a a d d a a u u g g h h t t e e r r o o f f S S e e n n d d M M e e T T h h e e C C a a n n d d y y. .
Those two mares were from Jess Send Candy’s first crop in 2011. They went on to earn $434,265 and $179,310, respectively, and were followed the next year by Hollywood Candy ($90,906), a 2012 PYC Paint Your Wagon mare. Jess Good Candy was born in 2013.
The scope of the impact that this maternal family has had on Quarter Horse racing is nearly impossible to cover in one article. Send Me Candy’s daughters, granddaughters, and great- granddaughters have made their mark time and again as they continue to produce winners and stakes horses. Their continuing success can be attributed to one man – Carl Pevehouse.
“He was very much a guy who wanted
to outrun you,” Wise said. “He used a lot of different stallions and he tried things that worked and didn’t work. But when they did work, he doubled up on them. Carl was very much a horseman.”
“Me and Carl had become really close in just a few years,” said Clint Crawford, who trained Jess Good Candy, in an AQHA press release. “He’d come over to the tack room and we’d sit there and talk for hours. He’d always tell me, ‘Cowboy, if you find that one, I want to win the All American, and I know that I’ve got the mares. If you find the one, don’t hesitate. You tell me where to go, when to go and what to do.’
“It’s too bad that he couldn’t make it,
but I know he is smiling down and watching it,” Crawford continued. “And I know that he’s extremely excited. He’s probably even more proud of his wife and his daughter for what they have done. They’ve kept this thing together. It’s been a blessing.”
Rozella, who like Fredda often graciously accepts the awards with tears in her eyes, had a s i m p l e r e x p l a n a t i o n f o r i t a l l . “ C a r l k e p t great mares.” Carl and Rozella Pevehouse. Carl and Fredda Draper. The women and their men. The broodmares and their sires. T h e c i r c l e c o n t i n u e s .
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