An ultra-consistent and versatile runner with a throwback physique, we are very excited that our friends at Wasabi Ventures Stallions are shareholders in the multiple Grade 1 winner Casa Creed as he launches his stud career at Mill Ridge Farm in 2025.
A winner going 7 furlongs on dirt at Saratoga as a 2YO, Casa Creed switched to the turf for his 3YO debut and became a black-type winner that day in Gulfstream’s Kitten’s Joy Stakes. He added his first graded victory at Saratoga that summer when taking the Grade 2 Hall of Fame, and picked up a Grade 1 placing in the Fourstardave Stakes at the Spa at 4YO. At 5YO he scored in the Grade 1 Jaipur sprinting 6 furlongs over Belmont’s turf course, earning a 105 Beyer Speed Figure, and he repeated that performance as a 6YO (104 BSF that year). Following his second Jaipur victory, he made it two straight when stretched out to a mile for that year’s Grade 1 Fourstardave (another 104 BSF). Returned to the races at 7YO, he was 3rd in the Grade 1 Jaipur, triumphed in the Grade 3 Kelso, and went back-to-back in the Grade 1 Fourstardave (102 BSF). He matched his career top Beyer of 105 when 3rd, beaten just a half-length for the win, in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile that fall. After racing twice at 8YO, Casa Creed was retired with an anachronistic career line of (36) 9-5-6, for $2.6 million in career earnings.
That consistency, durability and toughness will stand him in good stead at Mill Ridge, where he follows in the footprints of the equally turfy Oscar Performance (who has risen to a $45k stud fee for ’25). A tall, scopey, rangy horse who resembles the tough old campaigners of yesteryear in more ways than one, we’re excited to help give Casa Creed a chance to share those genes.
Casa Creed wins the G1 Jaipur in 2021
Casa Creed wins the G1 Jaipur in 2022
Casa Creed wins the G1 Fourstardave in 2022
Casa Creed wins the G1 Fourstardave in 2023