Carpe Diem<\/p>\n
Giant\u2019s Causeway \u2013 Rebridled Dreams, Unbridled\u2019s Song<\/p>\n
Enters Stud 2016 at WinStar Farm for a fee of $25,000<\/p>\n
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Race Record<\/b><\/p>\n
Carpe Diem\u2019s career began even before his first race.\u00a0 He was a $550,000 yearling purchase at Keeneland September by Northwest Stud, a pinhooking group.\u00a0 They trained him over the winter and prepped him for a run at the prestigious OBS March Two Year Olds In Training Sale for which he worked an eighth of a mile in :10 1\/5.\u00a0 He turned a lot of eyes that day and come sale day he was the sale topper at $1.6 million to WinStar Farms and Stonestreet Farms in a joint venture.\u00a0 Carpe Diem was turned over to trainer Todd Pletcher who did not debut the colt until Saratoga where he won a loaded maiden special weight over a colt who would eventually become a grade two winner, Ready for Rye.\u00a0 He jumped straight up in class to the Grade One Breeders\u2019 Futurity at Keeneland, a race he absolutely dominated, winning by more than six lengths.\u00a0 Finishing behind him that day were Keen Ice and Mr. Z.\u00a0 From there it was on to the Breeders\u2019 Cup Juvenile where he was among the favorites but he had to settle for second behind the runaway winner Texas Red.\u00a0 As a three year old he debuted in the Grade Two Tampa Bay Derby which he won by five lengths over Divining Rod and Dnazig Moon, among others.\u00a0 A return to Keeneland saw him run away by three lengths in a victorious appearance in the Grade One Blue Grass Stakes.\u00a0 His next start was the Kentucky Derby and it would prove to be his last start as he was injured and off the board.<\/p>\n
Pedigree<\/b><\/p>\n
Giant\u2019s Causeway has been a perennial leading sire since his retirement in 2001.\u00a0 He has been the leading sire in North America three times during that run and was the leading sire of two year olds twice.\u00a0 He was the leading son of Storm Cat on the racetrack and has become his sire\u2019s successor in the breeding shed.\u00a0 His major winners include Shamardal, Take Charge Brandi, Dalkala and Irish Mission, all champions.\u00a0 His sons at stud include Shamardal, First Samurai and Footstepsinthesand.\u00a0 Many of his best runners have been inbred to Northern Dancer, including Dalkala, Irish Mission, Man Of Iron and Eskendereya.\u00a0 The other very popular cross for Giant\u2019s Causeway as a sire is with Mr. Prospector line mares, which Carpe Diem is a product of.\u00a0 Both Shamardal and Take Charge Brandi fit that profile along with grade one winners My Typhoon and Carriage Trail.\u00a0 Giant\u2019s Causeway is a son of the wonderful mare Mariah\u2019s Storm who is the granddam of fellow 2016 freshman sire Gleneagles.\u00a0 Carpe Diem\u2019s dam is the stakes winning Unbridled\u2019s Song mare Rebridled Dreams.\u00a0 She has also produced grade one winner J.B.\u2019s Thunder (by Thunder Gulch) and stakes winner Doncaster Rover (War Chant) from seven foals.\u00a0 His second dam was a stakes winner by Corridor Key but it isn\u2019t until you go back to his fifth dam to find another graded stakes horse.\u00a0 Carpe Diem is inbred 4×5 to Northern Dancer.<\/p>\n
In the Sim<\/b><\/p>\n
In the game Giant\u2019s Causeway is ranked the third leading sires for stallions who are still active and tenth overall.\u00a0 He gets 21.8% stakes winners and 7.1% graded winners.\u00a0 He has one Hall of Fame son, Casterly Rock who had the Mr. Prospector son Gone West as DS.\u00a0 From his seven champions (including Casterly Rock) three of them were from mares by Mr. Prospector-line studs with one each for Sadler\u2019s Wells, A.P. Indy, Exceed and Excel and Dynaformer.\u00a0 The cross with Kingmambo-line mares has been especially potent getting at least seven grade one winners including five million dollar earner Carnival of Love.\u00a0 A.P. Indy and his sire Seattle Slew are represented at DS in at least six of Giant\u2019s Causeway\u2019s grade one winners.\u00a0 Realistically Giant\u2019s Causeway can give even an ordinary mare an extraordinary foal.\u00a0 Giant\u2019s Causeway\u2019s sons at stud have not been given the love he himself receives in the game.\u00a0 Shamardal is his best son at stud in the game and he gets 10.6% stakes winners and 2.4% graded winners.\u00a0 Shamardal is out of a mare by Machiavellian, a son of Mr. Prospector (whereas Carpe Diem is out of an Unbridled\u2019s Song mare who is a great grandson of Mr. Prospector).\u00a0 Shamardal was a champion in Europe and his best runners in the game have been on the turf.\u00a0 He has crossed best with mares by sons of Sadler\u2019s Wells and Danzig and to a lesser extent with Seattle Slew and A.P. Indy mares.\u00a0 Eskendereya is Giant\u2019s Causeway\u2019s next leading son in the sim.\u00a0 He\u2019s sired three grade one winners, two out of Mr. Prospector-line mares and one out of a His Majesty mare.\u00a0 Lastly First Samurai is an interesting sire to consider.\u00a0 He\u2019s by Giant\u2019s Causeway out of a Dixieland Band mare but his second dam is Fappiano, the grandsire of Unbridled\u2019s Song.\u00a0 He has yet to produce a grade one winner in the game but he has done very well with A.P. Indy line mares including mares by A.P. Indy\u2019s son Bernardini who is out of a Quiet American mare, with Quiet American being by Fappiano.<\/p>\n
Breeding Recommendations<\/b><\/p>\n
For Carpe Diem, his cross of Mr. Prospector is far enough back that he could easily be bred to mares by that sire\u2019s sons and grandsons such as Kingmambo, Seeking the Gold and Street Cry.\u00a0 He has no Seattle Slew blood and that makes Slew and his sons including A.P. Indy a good idea to cross with.\u00a0 The cross with A.P. Indy\u2019s son Bernardini seems especially intriguing as it would give you inbreeding to Fappiano who is a significant source of class in the sim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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