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SPEEDLINES
The Sire of Good Reason SA is Favorite Trick TB.
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Stakes-G3, Kentucky Breeders’ Cup Stakes, and WHAS-11 Stakes. He earned $1,231,998 and in addition to his Horse of the Year title, he was also the Champion Two-Year-Old Colt.
His three-year-old campaign started where it left off with a win in the seven furlong Swale Stakes-G3. He then finished third in the Arkansas Derby-G2 and then eighth in the Kentucky Derby-G1. He then won the Jim Dandy Stakes-G2 and Long Branch Breeders’ Cup Stakes before finishing fifth in the King’s Bishop Stakes-G2 and then first in the Keeneland Breeders’ Cup Mile Stakes-G2. His last race was the Breeders’ Cup Mile-G1, where he finished eighth. He won four with one third in his campaign at three from eight starts. He earned $494,795 for the year.
Favorite Trick started his breeding
career at Walmac International in Lexington, Kentucky. He was later moved to Cloverleaf Farms in Florida. He then found a home in New Mexico, at the JEH Stallion Station. The sire career of Favorite Trick met with
a tragic end when one of the stallion barns was destroyed by fire. Beside Favorite Trick,
the other stallions lost were Thoroughbreds Saratoga Six and Gone Hollywood as well as the Quarter Horses Fredricksburg, Southern Cartel and The Down Side.
Favorite Trick was the sire of Thorough- bred foals with earnings of over $17,000,000 with 41 stakes horses, including Yucatan, winner of such races as the Forego Handicap; Zoeling, winner of the Mr Jenney Handicap; Datrick, winner of the Kentucky Breeders’ Cup Stakes; and Sum Trick winner of the Ri- ley Allison Futurity at Sunland Park.
The Favorite Trick Quarter Horse starters have earned $4,177,957 with 60 ROM, six stakes winners and four stakes placed runners from 82 starters. His stakes horses consist of Champion Distance Horse Prankster CF; Tricky Dust, with earnings of $428,581; Favorite Cartel, winner of $607,669; and Tango Blue, with earnings of $169,757.
The sire of Favorite Trick is Phone Trick by Clever Trick. Phone Trick is out of Over The Phone by Finnegan. Phone Trick was the win- ner of five stakes races with three run at 6 fur- longs and the other two at 7 furlongs. He was
of a PYC Paint Your Wagon mare. That is Send Me Good Candy and her second dam is Send Me The Candy, the second dam of Jess Good Candy. Three of the eight stakes winners are out of Special Effort line mares. They are The Next Good Reason out of a Special Effort daughter, Love To Reason BR out of a daughter of Straw- fly Special by Special Effort, and Shes Gotta Reason out of a daughter of Special Leader by Special Effort.
The pedigree of Good Reason SA repre- sents an outcross pedigree through his sire Favorite Trick, who started his race career be- ing compared to the great Secretariat. Favorite Trick was the 1997 Thoroughbred Horse of the Year and the first two year old to win the title since Secretariat did it in 1972.
Favorite Trick had eight starts at two with eight wins. He won his maiden in late April at 4 1/2 furlongs and then he won seven stakes in a row. He raced in these stakes at distances from five furlongs to a mile and sixteenth. He won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile-G1, Hopeful Stakes-G1, Saratoga Special-G2, Lane’s End Breeders’ Futurity-G2, Bashford Manor
The pedigree of Good Reason SA represents an outcross pedigree through his sire Favorite Trick TB, who started his race career being compared to the great Secretariat.
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