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A speedster out of the gates, Send Me Candy’s race career was shortened by a flapper problem, but not before she won two races including this 300-yard dash at Blue Ribbon Downs.
SEND ME CANDY
“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 that slope at the finish line, and there was a big African American guy standing down in front of me. Now this fella stood 6’3” or 6’4” and probably weighed 300 pounds,” said Pevehouse. “When they opened that gate and here they come, the horse he was betting on was named See The Lady Go. And he was jumping up and hollering, ‘Come on, See The Lady Go! See The Lady Go! Send me candy, 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 time 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 kind of slumped down, and said, ‘There won’t be no candy today, baby.’
“On the way home, we were talking about that race and that man, and my friend was hol- lering, ‘Send me candy, send me candy!’ Well, I was thinking about the name of that filly, and right there was where Send Me Candy’s name was born, and we hadn’t even got to Houston yet,” Pevehouse added. “That’s the truth, just exactly the way it happened.” (Candy, inciden- tally, does not refer to the sugary-sweet treat
as you might imagine. Rather, “candy” is a euphemism for money.)
Send Me Candy showed tons of early promise—Pevehouse was offered $28,000 for the mare before she ever started—but turned out to have a flapper problem that kept her from reaching her full potential.
“She’d run out there about 200 yards and shut it off. I’d watch her, and she’d have a cou- ple lengths light on everything out of the gates at 100 yards,” Pevehouse recalled. “My nephew, Ronnie Pevehouse, who was training for me, wanted to go back and redo the surgery. I said, nope, this mare is too fast a mare. I’m going to keep her as a broodmare. So I brought her home and turned her out and bred her as a 3-year-old, and I started having racehorses.”
Send Me Candy’s first colt was sired by Nip N Dude, the stallion Pevehouse had raced and then stood briefly at stud. Candy Horse, the resulting foal, won seven races and finished in the top three an additional 14 times during a 42-race career that saw him earn $24,045. In the meantime, Pevehouse bred Send Me Candy to the Thoroughbred Disco Jerry. In 1985, the mare foaled Send The Gals Candy.
A trailer accident nearly kept Send The Gals Candy from ever making it to the racetrack, but once he did, he was nothing short of spectacular. After beginning his career in Ada, Oklahoma, and turning heads in his first two starts, Send The Gals Candy was shipped to California.
Send Me A Candy Tree winning the 2011 Southwest Juvenile Championship-G1.
Send The Gals Candy winning the 1988 Town Policy Handicap at Los Alamitos.
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