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Champion SW Eye Candy winning the 2011 Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1 at Fair Meadows.
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4-time APHA Champion Country Quick Dash, the sire of Quick Caydee.
“I have been in the business since I was about 17 years old when I got my first racehorse.”...Wendy Keener
to run fifth after being in tight quarters early in the race. His next start came with a 1 1/4-length win in his trial to the PSBA American Paint Classic Futurity, a race he won but was disqualified after breaking in at the start. His next two starts pitted PFR Quickwire against Signs Of Livewire. They met in their trial to the Speedhorse Graham Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1, where he finished second
in both the trial and the finals behind Signs Of Livewire. His next start came
in the trials to the Speedhorse Paint
& Appaloosa Futurity-G1 where he finished second to Salt Wire, qualifying to the finals where he ran fifth in the second leg of the Speedhorse Triple Crown. His next start came in the Pot O’ Gold Futurity trials where he finished fourth, but did not qualify. He came back in the Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Championship Futurity-G1 trials. He won his heat and qualified to the finals
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in which he ran third. This gave him 10 starts with two wins, three seconds and one third. PFR Quickwire most recently ran third in his trial to the $70,000 estimated Texas Hero Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1 in which he qualified to the finals that will be contested on Dec. 17. When I asked Wendy how she got started with horses and how Painted Faith Racing became a racing entity, she responded, “I have been in the business since I was about 17 years old when I got my first racehorse. My husband, Dee Keener, is the trainer and Painted Faith Racing is a partnership with Steve and Lorie Wright.”
When I asked how she got Quick Caydee, she replied, “She came from Steve Wright. I bought her from them. So, my partners are the breeders of Quick Caydee. She was a good solid AA mare. She is a full sister to Biker Chick and that is one reason we wanted to buy her.”
Steve Wright’s entry into Paint horse racing sounds familiar as well. “I got started in the mid 90’s with Quarter Horses and was influenced by my dad, and then in 2004 I was introduced to a couple who had Paints and I bought my first Paint horse. Then I went back and bought Audacious (winner of the 2002 PSBA Derby) and
her foal Biker Chick and now I am predominately into Paint Horses.
“Audacious is the dam of Quick Caydee, who is a full sister to Biker Chick, and I bred her,” Wright continued. “Audacious was my foundation mare. I bred her to several different studs, and she has been a black type stakes producing mare, and she was a black type mare herself. Her get
Biker Chick, Dodacious and Snowdacious are all black type mares.”
When I asked him why he sold Quick Caydee, he explained, “I had several runners that year and I couldn’t run them all, so I sold Quick Caydee to Dee and Wendy, and we ended up running her. I also had SW Eye Candy at the same time and four or five others, and I just couldn’t run all of them, so I kept SW Eye Candy and the others, and they all became black type horses, and we kept going on.” 2012 Champion 3-Year-Old Filly SW Eye Candy earned $78,253
and won the 2011 Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1 at Fair Meadows.
Quick Caydee was a stakes-placed runner making 11 starts with three firsts, one second and one third and $32,439 in earnings. In addition to being stakes placed with a third in the 2011 Oklahoma Horsemen’s Association Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-RG1, she was a finalist in the American Paint Classic Futurity-RG1 and Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1, a race won by SW Eye Candy.
The Mare Line
The produce record for Quick
Caydee shows that she is the dam of
five starters with four ROM and two stakes placed runners. Her runners have earned $94,717. Her 2022 foal earnings shows that she is #5 on the leading money earning list with foals earning of $65,855. Her other stakes placed runner is Flashem Wally O, who was third in the 2020 Gillespie GCFA Paint & Appaloosa Juvenile. This horse was also a finalist in the 2020 Victoria Ennis Memorial Stakes and 2020 APHA Claiming Futurity. He has 11 starts with one first, one second and one third with earnings of $15,291.