Spendthrift Farm again leaves mark on Fourstardave
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - For the second year in a row, Spendthrift Farm had a connection to the winner of the Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap on the Saratoga turf.
Casa Creed, by Spendthrift stallion Jimmy Creed, made his third appearance in the race a winning one after finishing third in the past two editions of the race. Last year, he finished behind Got Stormy, who carried Spendthrift colors.
Jimmy Creed, by Distorted Humor, was a $900,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Spendthrift. He scored his biggest victory in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes in 2012. He also won the Grade 2 Potrero Grande the following year, and placed in two other Grade 1 races in California.
Jimmy Creed’s first crop as a stallion hit the track in 2017. In addition to multiple Grade 1 winner Casa Creed, Jimmy Creed is also the sire of graded stakes winners Kanthaka, King Jack, and Spectator.
“He’s a great stallion,” Spendthrift general manager Ned Toffey said. “He’s a beautiful, beautiful horse. Percentage-wise, he’s always been really, really strong. He’s really sort of been a little bit of an underrated horse, but he keeps reminding us that he can get any kind of a horse, and we’re really glad to have him.”
Got Stormy is now part of the Spendthrift broodmare band after winning two editions of the Fourstardave. She won the De La Rose Stakes by four lengths in August 2019 at Saratoga, then a week later came back to defeat males in the Fourstardave, winning by 2 1/2 lengths in a course-record 1:32. She finished second in the 2020 edition to Halladay.
Spendthrift purchased Got Stormy for $2.75 million as a racing or broodmare prospect at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale. The farm brought her back for another season of racing with trainer Mark Casse, and was rewarded with another victory in the Fourstardave in Spendthrift colors, in partnership with MyRacehorse.
Got Stormy retired at the end of the 2021 season with 12 wins from 32 starts - with 10 stakes victories including seven graded stakes scores - and earnings of more than $2.4 million. She resides at Spendthrift in Lexington, Ky., and is in foal to the farm's first-year stallion Yaupon, a Grade 1-winning son of Uncle Mo.
“She’s doing great,” Toffey said. “We're looking forward to her first offspring, and hopefully many more.”
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