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Marjorie Farms, located in Fredericksburg, Texas, is proud to announce the purchase of the acclaimed stallion Creative Cause.

The millionaire Grade 1 winner and sire of earners of currently more than $34.5 million on the track, Creative Cause has had tremendous success under the care and direction of the team at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky. Creative Cause is by two-time leading sire Giant's Causeway and out of Grade 1 winner Dream of Summer.

Creative Cause has made the trip from Kentucky to Texas and will stand at Marjorie Farms for the 2024 season for $6,000.

Both the teams for Airdrie Stud and Marjorie Farms were thrilled with the opportunity presented for the stallion in Texas.

Bret Jones of Airdrie Stud, where Creative Cause spent his entire post-race career said of the stallion, said, “he has meant a lot to us over the years and I am very thankful that he will be able to continue his career where he will get the mare support he deserves.”

Farm owners John & Elisabeth Hay could not pass up the opportunity to bring such an incredible stallion to Texas, adding, “Texas and generally the Southwest is ready to take a big step forward and the addition of such an incredible stallion does just that.”

Farm manager of Marjorie Farms, Bill Tracy, noted as to the success of his runners, “Creative Cause's runners are fast, durable, proven and precocious and to look no further than the win for his King Cause in the Texas Turf Classic this summer at Lone Star Park.”

Tracy added, “the seven graded stakes winners, 24 black type winners and lifetime progeny earnings that dwarf that of any other stallion in the region. Whether breeding in the Texas program or nationally, the success of his progeny speak for themselves.”

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Mr. Z, a multiple Grade 1-placed stakes winner who ran in the 2015 Kentucky Derby, will continue his stallion career in Saudi Arabia after selling to FMQ Stables for $15,000 on Wednesday at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

The 11-year-old son of Malibu Moon previously stood at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he entered stud in 2018.

From three crops of racing age, Mr. Z has sired 30 winners, and his runners have combined for earnings of more than $1.7 million. His progeny is led by Eminent Victor, a stakes winner and Grade 1-placed runner.

FMQ Stables, the nom de course of Faisal Mohammed Alqahtani, campaigns Saudi Crown, the winner of this year's Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby. Though the winning bid was placed online, Zach Madden of consignor Buckland Sales said the buyer had people looking at the stallion on the sales grounds leading up to his time in the ring.

“The guys that represent FMQ were there and were taking a bunch of videos of him in the back ring, so I knew they were probably live on the horse,” Madden said. “He's a really cool horse, and I wish him the best. We just had him in the barn for a few days, but he's a big, beautiful horse, and he caught everyone's eye in the back ring. It was sort of a spectacle back there.”

Mr. Z is the second former Calumet stallion to be purchased this year to stand in Saudi Arabia, after Grade 3 winner Optimizer sold to Youssef Mohammed Alturaif's YMT Farm for $35,000 at the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale. Mr. Z was himself part of the slate of Calumet offerings at that sale, finishing under his reserve with a final bid of $90,000.

Bred in Kentucky by Richard Maynard, Mr. Z initially raced for Zayat Stables and trainer D. Wayne Lukas.

After winning on debut as a juvenile at Churchill Downs, Mr. Z earned second-place finishes in the G3 Sanford Stakes and G2 Saratoga Special Stakes. He continued to chase an elusive graded stakes win in the second half 0f his 2-year-old campaign with a runner-up effort in the G1 Breeders' Futurity, a fifth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita Park, another second in the G3 Delta Downs Jackpot Stakes, and a third to finish the year in the G1 Los Alamitos Futurity.

He continued to consistently be in the mix during the Kentucky Derby prep season of 2015, culminating in a third-place effort in the G1 Arkansas Derby behind fellow Zayat-owned runner American Pharoah. He finished behind that one again in the Kentucky Derby, where Mr. Z faced repeated traffic issues under jockey Ramon Vazquez and settled for 13th.

Between the Derby and the Preakness Stakes, Mr. Z was sold privately to Calumet Farm to race in the second leg of the Triple Crown, still under the Lukas shedrow. He finished fifth to American Pharoah in the Preakness, but after escaping the shadow of the eventual Triple Crown winner, Mr. Z earned his first stakes victory in the Ohio Derby.

That would be Mr. Z's final win, and after finishing second in the G2 Indiana Derby in the ensuing start, he never hit the board again. He finished his on-track career with two wins in 25 starts for earnings of $1,177,378.

Mr. Z is out of the unraced Storm Cat mare Stormy Bear, whose four winners from seven foals to race also includes Ibn al Nafis, who is stakes-placed in the U.A.E., and stakes-placed Andean. He comes from the family of two-time Canadian Horse of the Year Chief Bearhart and Grade 1 winner Explosive Red.

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Precipitate, a 5-year-old daughter of Pioneerof the Nile in foal to Tacitus, sold to James Wyenandt for $80,000 to be the highest-priced purchase of Wednesday's next-to-last session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

From the family of champion Close Hatches, 2023 Breeders' Cup Distaff winner Idiomatic and Grade 2 winner Tacitus, Precipitate was consigned by Lane's End, agent for Juddmonte. On Tuesday, her half-sister Forenoon sold as a broodmare prospect to JCB Stables for $150,000.

Lane's End, which sold horses that brought five of the 10-highest prices Wednesday, was the day's leading consignor with sales of $593,600 for 34 horses.

For the session, Keeneland sold 258 horses through the ring for $3,065,300, a 28.93 percent decrease from the eighth day of the 2022 November Sale, when total receipts were $4,313,300 for 260 horses. The average of $11,881 was 28.38 percent below $16,590 for the corresponding session last year. The median of $9,250 declined 15.91 percent from last year's $11,000.

With one session remaining in the auction, 1,873 horses have sold through the ring for $173,925,300, which is 15.45 percent below last's year's cumulative gross of $205,696,600 for 1,826 horses sold through eight days. The average of $92,859 is 17.57 percent lower than last year's $112,649, while the median of $40,000 declined 20 percent from $50,000 last year.

Scarabea, a 5-year-old winning stakes-placed daughter of American Pharoah bred to Hightail for her first foal, sold Wednesday to The Racing Advisory for $75,000. Buckland Sales (Zach Madden), agent, consigned the mare, who is out of Grade 3 winner Starstruck (IRE), by Galileo (IRE), and a half-sister to stakes winner Turf War. Scarabea is from the family of Irish and English highweight Agnetha, Group 2 winner Areion and Group 3 winner Dancing King.

Lane's End, agent, also consigned the day's most expensive weanling, a colt by Tonalist purchased by Raylan Givens for $60,000. Out of the winning Distorted Humor mare Playful Humor, he is from the family of champion Pleasant Stage along with Grade 1 winners Marsh Side and Seattle Meteor.

Tonalist also is the sire of a weanling filly consigned by Lane's End, agent, who sold to Boyd Crowder for $50,000. Out of the winning War Front mare Quant, she is from the family of 2023 Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby winner Saudi Crown as well as Grade 1 winner Noble's Promise, Grade 2 winner New Economy and Grade 3 winner New Normal.

Wednesday's leading buyer was Triple Crown, which purchased 10 horses for $159,500.

Thursday is the final day of the November Breeding Stock Sale. The session starts at 10 a.m. ET.

On Friday, Keeneland will kick off the November Horses of Racing Age Sale at noon. Click here for the online catalog.

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Grade 2 winner Bourbonic will begin his stallion career in Mexico after selling to Rancho Natoches for $20,000 on Wednesday at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

The 5-year-old son of Bernardini raced as a homebred for Calumet Farm, winning four of 19 starts and earning $703,493. He was trained by Todd Pletcher.

After toiling in a pair of New York maiden special weights, Bourbonic dropped in class to take a maiden claiming race going a mile on the main track at Aqueduct. That confidence-building win helped the colt climb the ladder, with a starter allowance win at the same track and distance, and a runner-up effort in a Parx Racing allowance optional claiming race.

Bourbonic left the gate in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial Stakes with the longest odds on the board at 72-1. Under jockey Kendrick Carmouche, he sat in last and closed with a charge to best Dynamic One by a head and punch his ticket for the 2021 Kentucky Derby.

Once again a long price in the Derby, Bourbonic finished 13th, then he came back for the Belmont Stakes, where he finished fifth.

Bourbonic continued to race through the summer of 2023, winning an allowance optional claiming race to start his 5-year-old campaign, and finishing third in the G3 West Virginia Derby in his comeback start from the Belmont Stakes.

Guillermo Elizondo, owner of Rancho Natoches, said he was drawn to Bourbonic for his sire, Bernardini. Elizondo's farm was home to Bold Legacy, a half-brother to Bernardini by Seattle Slew, and he wanted to bring the familiar blood back to Mexico.

“I bought Bold Legacy a year before Bernardini raced,” Elizondo said. “When Bernardini raced, I wouldn't have been able to buy Bold Legacy. I like this bloodline. I like Bernardini. Even though he's best at getting females, I think he's got the blood to get a good stallion. We need these kind of horses here (in Mexico).

“I never thought we were going to be able to buy [Bourbonic],” he continued. “It was a very reasonable price.”

Bourbonic is out of the Grade 2-winning Afleet Alex mare Dancing Afleet, whose three foals to race are all winners, also including Grade 2-placed Avant Garde.

Buckland Sales consigned the stallion prospect as agent.

“He's a big, good looking horse,” said Buckland Sales' Zach Madden. “When you're going up there and five hips before, you're selling a mare, and then you switch to stallion mode, you've got to recalibrate everything. I knew those guys had been back to the barn a few times, and their vet was there, and they were buying mares.

“We knew a few people were interested, and he's a really good horse,” Madden continued. “These guys are super-pumped to have him, so it's hard not to root for them, people that are excited to have their horses.”

Elizondo has been a frequent customer at Keeneland auctions to build his stallion roster. He purchased Win Willy, a multiple Grade 2-winning son of Monarchos, for $45,000 at the 2014 Keeneland November Sale. In 2018, he secured Fayeq, a half-brother to Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra by Malibu Moon, for $55,000.

“Right now, we believe [Win Willy is] the best stallion in Mexico,” Elizondo said. “He's getting very good runners and stakes winners. We just won the 2-year-old champion filly with him (Vanadis Asquifar, Mexico's champion 2-year-old filly of 2022).”

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