Multiple Grade 1 winning millionaire Good Reward is the
first son of Storm Cat to stand at Three Chimneys. Consider
the qualities he brings to the stallion barn:
- Only son of Storm Cat at stud in the U.S. with G1 wins
in New York and California. No other Storm Cat at stud
has more U.S. Grade 1 wins.
- Earned over $1-million, making more than double the
average number of starts by progeny of Storm Cat.
- Made 20 consecutive starts in stakes races.
- Like Storm Cat's best son, Giant's Causeway, he's a
multiple G1 winner at 1 1/4 miles.
- Out of one of the Phipps family's greatest champions.
His full brother, the mare's only other son at stud, is a
multiple G1 sire in 2008 and 2009.
Good Reward was bred by the Phipps Stable, one of
racing's most powerful and enduring homebred operations.
At two, he broke his maiden at Belmont going a mile
on dirt. At three, he was on the board in four consecutive
stakes at Belmont and Saratoga, before winning a one-mile
stakes event on turf at Keeneland.
Trainer Shug McGaughey next sent the colt to the
$500,000 Hollywood Derby-G1, where he showed great
courage attaining his first Grade 1 victory, and his first triple
Digit Beyer.
In his debut at four, Good Reward was on the board to
Rock Hard Ten in the Strub S.-G2 on dirt, then switched
back to turf where he placed in the Maker's Mark Mile-G2 at
Keeneland and the Dixie H.-G2 at Pimlico.
Good Reward next won the $400,000 Manhattan H.-G1
at Belmont. Streaking toward the wire with Breeders' Cup
champion Artie Schiller in hot pursuit, Good Reward posted a
superb final time of 2:00 and 3/5, and earned a 106 Beyer.
Good Reward began the next season with close finishes to
English Channel, Miesque's Approval and Artie Schiller, and
three consecutive Triple Beyers on both dirt and turf.
McGaughey then sent his stable's star colt back to
California to face Lava Man in the $1-million Pacific
Classic-G1 on dirt. Lava Man was looking for his sixth
straight victory, and while he did win, Good Reward
impressed all who saw him, angling inside, outside and
back inside before running second by 2-1/2 lengths.
This was his fourth consecutive triple digit Beyer, each
at a different track, distance, or surface. Good Reward then
placed in two more graded stakes, both over synthetic.
Good Reward retired to stud as one of Storm Cat's
soundest and most versatile sons. He made 26 career starts
from 6-1/2 furlongs to 1-1/4 miles, and was on the board
21 times. He ran at 14 tracks, while successfully handling
dirt, turf and synthetic surfaces.
Good Reward has a good throat, good knees and a good
temperament. Dinny Phipps has said that Good Reward
favors his dam, the prophetically-named Heavenly Prize.
At the races, Champion Heavenly Prize won eight Grade 1's
from two to four. As a broodmare, she produced a Grade 2
winner from her first runner. And that horse, Pure Prize, is
one of the leading young sires in Kentucky, with 44 stakes
horses in four crops, three Grade/Group 1 winners in 2009.
Storm Cat needs no introduction as a sire of sires. It is
worth noting, however, that several of his best siring sons
have Northern Dancer 3x3 or 3x4, as does Good Reward.
Good Reward was bred to over 100 mares his first year
at stud, and his inaugural weanlings included a $100,000
Keeneland November filly. At the yearling sales in 2009,
another of his daughters was in the international spotlight,
when a filly out of Princess Kris (GB) sold at the Goffs Orby
Sale for 220,000 Euros, or $321,839, fourth highest price
of any colt or filly at the venue. And at the Tattersalls
October Sale, his son out of Bold Desire sold for 65,000
Euros, or $107,903.
The quality of the mares bred to Good Reward increased
dramatically from his first to second books. His 2009
Comparable Index of 2.28 is second in the nation among
all stallions in his stud fee range, and fifth among all
stallions in his siring crop.
Millionaire, multiple Grade 1 winner with triple digit speed
on dirt and turf; son of the greatest living American sire, out
of a great champion mare; full brother to a leading young
sire...the first foals by Good Reward race in 2010.