Peppers Pride begins New Career

Critics shunned her then discredited her. The bay filly won more consecutive races than did the great Cigar and Citation. Critics say her connections picked the races carefully.

Don't ALL trainers pick races carefully?! After all how many studs go in promoting they were almost good enough? It's wins that make statistics and wins that draw mares. Pepper's Pride raced into the record books at 17 consecutive wins in an allowance field in New Mexico. A race streak that long no matter what caliber competition is certainly an achievement, but the Desert God daughter didn't stop there. She also went past the international record of Hong Kong standout Silent Witness by winning 19 consecutive races, retiring undefeated. Her lifetime earnings are just over a million dollars. She won at a mile and won at six furlongs. She doesn't have high dollar breeding, true.

Her sire is by Fappiano nice enough, out of a Blushing Groom mare. Her dam is the Texas bred Lady Pepper, by Chili Pepper Pie out of a daughter of Draconic. Horses don't read papers and don't listen to critics and this horse did the job ahead of her one step at a time. Recently shipped to Richland Hills Farm near Midway Kentucky she traveled well and went about the business of settling in.

 She now enters the career of a broodmare and what better way to do so than with an equally tough, intelligent horse to breed her to. Tiznow carried a determination to win including at those higher levels. She's tough, he's tough. Both could carry enough speed to get the win, sometimes by daylight and sometimes by a desperate nose but a win is a win.

With perpetual hope, this is a foal that could be exciting to watch at whatever level he - or she - competes at. Almost makes one wonder what she'd have done bred to Seattle Slew, also not well regarded by many for being a "cheap" horse and we saw what he did in the breeding shed.

Pepper's Pride like many is up against a race to do the tough job of improving herself. For the good ones we don't want just reproducing themselves - after all Secretariat sired a Horse of the Year and some consider him a failure! Sometimes the best race horses don't pass it on. Here's looking forward to a Tiznow-Pepper's Pride foal!