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SPEEDLINES
Good Reason SA is the sire of Jess Good Candy.
Good Reason SA was bred and owned by Gianna Samaja of Brazil. Samaja bred and raced horses in Brazil for 50 years. He also bred and raced horses in the United States for almost 20 years.
SIRE PEDIGREE
Jess Good Candy is a son of Good Reason SA and out of the mare Jess Send Candy by Mr Jess Perry. Good Reason SA was bred and owned by Gianna Samaja of Brazil. Samaja bred and raced horses in Brazil for 50 years. He also bred and raced horses in the United States for almost 20 years. Vince Genco be- came Samaja’s racing manager in the U. S. Good Reason SA died unexpectedly in 2012. His 2013 foal crop included Jess Good Candy.
The race history of Good Reason SA shows that he had an injured tibia early in his two-year-old year. So, they brought him on slow with his first start coming in September, where he broke his maiden in his first start. He came back to run fourth in his Golden State Futurity trial and did not qualify for the finals. His next start was in the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity trials, where he won and qualified for the finals. He won the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity-G1 over Apollitical Jess.
The next start for Good Reason SA came in the Golden State Derby trials, with a win that
qualified him for the finals. He then went on
to win the Golden State Derby-G1. They gave Good Reason SA a break until it was time for the Z. Wayne Griffin Director’s Stakes, where he finished second in the second division of that race, but qualified for the Champion of Cham- pions-G1. He finished eighth in this race that was won by Apollitical Jess, who was crowned the World Champion for the year.
The four-year-old campaign for Good Reason SA was a little erratic as he would only win two races in eight starts. He ran in the trials of the Los Alamitos Winter Championship with a second, qualifying for and winning the Grade 2 finals. He moved on to run in four more races, including the Vessels Maturity-G1, Go Man Go Handicap-G1 and Robert L. Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1, going unplaced in each of these races. He saved his best start for last by winning the Champion of Champions-G1 and then he was named the Champion Aged Stallion and Champion Aged Horse. His total record came to seven wins
and two seconds in 15 starts with earnings of $1,446,727.
Good Reason SA has sired 157 foals to date. Despite his death in 2012, he is still breeding by way of modern technology. He has sired 91 start- ers, 79 ROM and eight stakes winners. His stakes winners include Champion Aged Mare Jess Good Reason, a multiple stakes winner of such races as the Charger Bar Handicap-G1. His other stakes winners consist of Woop Dee Doo, winner of the Heartland Futurity; Love To Reason BR, winner of the Las Damas Handicap-G3; Shes Gotta Reason, winner of the All Canadian Derby of Al- berta; Send Me Good Candy, winner of the Miss Ellen Stakes; The Next Good Reason, winner of the Dixie Downs Derby; and Jess A Reason, win- ner of the Campeonato Juvenile in Mexico.
Here is a pedigree note on these stakes win- ners by Good Reason SA. Three of the eight stakes winners are out of Mr Jess Perry line mare. They consist of Jess Good Candy and Woop Dee Doo out of daughters of Mr Jess Perry, with Jess Good Reason out of a Feature Mr Jess by Mr Jess Perry mares. A Lucky Ladies Man, a stakes placed runner with a third in the 2019 Golden State Million Futurity-G1, is out of a daughter of Mr Jess Perry. One of eight stakes winners was out
Good Reason SA has sired 157 foals to date.
Despite his death in 2012, he is still breeding by way of modern technology. He has sired 91 starters, 79 ROM and eight stakes winners.
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