Three Chimneys is proud to welcome our first son of Storm Cat, as Good Reward joins our roster for 2007. There are Storm Cats, and there are Storm Cats. Consider the quality that Good Reward brings to the stallion barn:

• He is Storm Cat's only son with Grade I wins in New York and California. And no son of Storm Cat at stud has more Grade I wins than Good Reward.

• He earned over $1-million, making more than double the average number of starts by progeny of Storm Cat.

• He made 20 consecutive starts in stakes races.

• Like Storm Cat's best son, Giant's Causeway, he excelled in Grade I races on dirt and turf.

• He is out of one of the Phipps family's greatest champion mares, and his dam's only other son of racing age is a Top 10 Freshman Sire of 2006.

Good Reward was bred in Kentucky by the Phipps Stable, one of racing's most powerful and enduring homebred operations. At two, he broke his maiden at Belmont in September going a mile on dirt.

At three, Good Reward won a Keeneland allowance and was on the board in four consecutive stakes at Belmont and Saratoga before becoming a stakes winner in the Storm Cat Stakes going a mile on the turf at Keeneland.

Trainer Shug McGaughey next sent the colt across the country to contest the $500,000 Hollywood Derby-G1. Good Reward showed great courage in attaining his first Grade I victory. Racing between horses, he angled out four wide and in a mad dash to the wire, Good Reward got there first by a half length, earning his first Triple Digit Beyer. The Blood-Horse noted "Good Reward couldn't have run any bigger."

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 Dixie S.-G2 at Pimlico.

Good Reward next suited up for the $400,000 Manhattan H.-G1 at Belmont. He pressed the early pace before grabbing the lead in the stretch. Streaking toward the wire, with Breeders' Cup champion Artie Schiller in hot pursuit, Good Reward hit the finish a half length in the clear, with a superb final time of 2:00 and 3/5 for the 1-1/4 miles. For his victory over a strong international field, Good Reward earned yet another Triple Digit Beyer, a 106.

In early 2006, Good Reward debuted in the Canadian Turf H. at Gulfstream, running less than three lengths behind English Channel and Miesque's Approval. He next was two lengths behind Artie Schiller and Miesque's Approval in the Maker's Mark Mile-G2 at Keeneland. Good Reward ran back-to-back Triple Beyers on turf, then switched to the dirt, where he also posted a Triple Beyer.

McGaughey next sent his stable's star colt to California to face a giant in a million-dollar race ­ on the dirt. Lava Man, by the time of the 2006 Pacific Classic, was widely recognized as the best older horse in America, undefeated through his first five starts of the year.

While Lava Man did eventually win, Good Reward impressed all who saw him, as he angled inside, outside and back inside before running second by 2-1/2 lengths. Behind him were Grade I winners at 1-1/4 miles Giacomo and Perfect Drift, as well as millionaire Super Frolic.

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 polytrack.

Good Reward retires to stud as one of the soundest and most versatile sons of Storm Cat. He made 26 career starts from 6-1/2 furlongs to 1-1/4 miles, on the board 21 times. He ran at fourteen tracks, while handling every type of surface: dirt, turf and polytrack.

It has been said that Good Reward had a good throat, good knees and good temperament. Dinny Phipps has remarked that Good Reward favored his dam, millionaire Eclipse champion Heavenly Prize. The prophetically named Heavenly Prize won eight Grade I races from two to four.

As a broodmare, Heavenly Prize produced a Grade 2 winner from her first runner, and that horse, Pure Prize, is the third leading freshman sire of 2006 by stakes winners and a top 10 freshman sire by earnings.

Storm Cat needs no introduction as a sire, or 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.

A millionaire, multiple Grade I winner with Triple Beyer speed on dirt and turf; son of the greatest living American sire; son of a great champion mare; full brother to a leading freshman sire...Good Reward stands his first season at Three Chimneys in 2007.