Page 83 - Speedhorse April 2021

“I got Gianna Samaja from Brazil, one of my clients, to breed Queen of Appeals to Favorite Trick and that produced Good Reason SA.”
– Paul Jones
Favorite Trick is the sire of Favorite Cartel.
SPEEDLINES
Beside Favorite Cartel, Favorite Trick’s top Quarter Horse stakes horses include:
Good Reason SA Prankster CF
Queen of Appeals
Favorite Trick
A SPEEDY SIRE LINE
A key factor for Favorite Trick as the outcross in the mating with Shenoshercorona to produce Favorite Cartel is the speed he showed as a racehorse. His success as a two year old on the track is another key factor in a stallion’s ability to sire early maturing foals that can be good at the age of two. Favorite Trick had both of those ingredients to cross on Quarter Horse mares.
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 won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile-G1, Hopeful Stakes-G1, Saratoga Special-G2, Lane’s End Breeders’ Futurity-G2, Bashford Manor Stakes-G3, Kentucky Breeders’ Cup Stakes, and WHAS-11 Stakes. He earned $1,231,998 and was the 1997 Horse of the Year as well as the Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. He was the first two year old to win the Horse of the Year title since Secretariat did it in 1972.
Favorite Trick returned to the races
at three with a win in the seven-furlong Swale Stakes-G2. He then finished third in the Arkansas Derby-G2 and eighth
in the Kentucky Derby-G1. He won the Long Branch Breeders’ Cup Stakes and the Jim Dandy Stakes-G2 before finishing fifth in the King’s Bishop Stakes-G2
after a troubled trip, and then first in the Keeneland Breeders’ Cup Mile Stakes-G2. His last race was the Breeders’ Cup Mile-G1, where he finished eighth after
2-Time Champion
Champion
Tango Blue Grade 2 winner
Tricky Dust
12-time stakes winner & NTR setter Tricky Dust
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