Fan Favorite Casa Creed New to Mill Ridge

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00:00With 36 starts over seven years of racing, Casa Creed is a unique addition to the Kentucky

00:07Stallion ranks.

00:08Here, Price Bell tells us why the four-time Grade 1 winner and multi-millionaire was the

00:12right fit for Mill Ridge Farm.

00:20Casa Creed has been our most popular sire to come back into the stallion shed since

00:26maybe, I don't know, Valiant Nature back in the mid-90s, and I think because horses

00:33like Oscar Performance and Cara Conte have helped elevate turf to the point of, like,

00:39you can stand as turf sire in America.

00:42And also, he has just such a great story, you know, relative to Leon Seidler and Mike

00:46Francesa.

00:47I mean, they're just like the, I don't know, I mean, they develop fan favorites, and this

00:51horse was certainly a fan favorite.

00:53One, because he ran in four straight four-star daves, but two, because Lee and Mike are so

00:59generous in sharing their horses and sharing the experience.

01:03So you start to put that together, and you start to say, well, you know, not only did

01:08he win at two, went on the dirt, his first stakes win comes on the 5th of January of

01:13his three-year-old year, where he wins the Kitten's Joy, and then he puts together body

01:17work, where I think he runs in 27 graded stakes, wins four Grade 1s, wins nine races, runs

01:23I think nine triple-digit buyers.

01:25So he is precocious, if that's something that we demand in stallion prospects, if he is

01:31brilliant.

01:32If you can be brilliant and defeat his Breeders' Cup mile in 2023 at Santa Anita, I mean, he's

01:38beaten just for the whole thing by Maj and Master of the Seas, like two proper European

01:45horses.

01:46You have to have, like, determination and brilliance to perform at that level time and

01:52again on the turf, especially.

01:54Casa Creed on the outside, these two square off once again, Casa Creed or Annapolis?

01:59Annapolis, Casa Creed, Casa Creed, Casa Creed, what a racehorse he is!

02:05I think he's a very attractive, good-looking horse, you know, he stands over a lot of ground.

02:11If you were to knock him, you'd say, well, he's now starting his stallion career at nine.

02:16But if we, at the same time, look for more longevity in our horses and feel we're not

02:22breeding enough longevity into our horses, then is he not the perfect candidate to be

02:27considered?

02:28You know, this isn't a horse who was brilliant at six and seven, he was brilliant from two

02:34to eight.

02:35I mean, that's a body of work that, if we're trying to promote and breed better, faster,

02:40stronger, stouter horses, he should be considered.

02:45Casa Creed has put together a great syndicate similar to Oz Performance.

02:50Key to success, I think, is really trying to work and support the breeders who are taking

02:55this chance with you and recognizing it's a relationship and that you're really, you,

03:01the promoter of the stallion, is only as good as those breeders who will join you on the

03:06journey.