We try hard not to reinvent the wheel with our mating plans, preferring instead to stick with stallions that duplicate some sort of success achieved within a mare’s female family. The existence of a black-type half-brother by Distorted Humor’s son Maclean’s Music is what led us to recommend that the Godolphin-bred Uncle Mo mare Wand Work visit Maclean’s Music for her own first mating, and why we liked the Distorted Humor grandson Casa Creed for her last year.
In 2026, Wand Work will follow a similar path and be paired with Distorted Humor’s highly-proven value son Jimmy Creed.
Although Jimmy Creed has not scaled the commercial heights that it looked like he might a handful of years ago, he has remained a solid, consistent source of quality runners at a value fee. He now has 71 black-type horses to his credit, good for almost 15% of his runners, including four new black-type juveniles in 2025 from 25 2YOs to race. He also added a new graded winner to his resume in ‘25 with Creed’s Gold, and his AEI/CI ratio remains strong as well.
Those stats all make him an excellent choice for a young mare’s second foal, to hopefully give her a chance with a runner, especially a young mare that has that black-type sibling by Maclean’s Music (who is still active and has now earned almost $300k).
While TrueNicks rates this pairing at only a “D” looking at the broad cross of Distorted Humor over Indian Charlie, delving a little more deeply into the stats shows reasons to be more optimistic than that about this pairing: Jimmy Creed himself has two foals to race so far out of Uncle Mo mares, both of which have won, and one of which has earned black-type, the pair having earned over $236k between them. Jimmy Creed also has two additional runners out of mares by other sons of Indian Charlie, and both of those are winners, as well. One of them has earned black-type, too, and this pair has earned about $215k. So that’s not too shabby, at all.
Jimmy Creed also has a black-type winner and another black-type runner out of Bernardini mares (Bernardini being Wand Work’s own broodmare sire), and the broader Distorted Humor/Bernardini cross has also produced the likes of G1 Kentucky Oaks winner Serengeti Empress.
Physically, both are well-balanced, medium-sized horses, and he will hopefully add a little bit of bulk to her rangier frame.
All of which gives us reason to believe that the combination of Jimmy Creed and Wand Work can produce a successful runner!