TDN RISING STARS

July 16, 2011 - Hollywood Park, Race 5, Msw, USD $55,000, 5f

Creative Cause, c, 2, 2009 by Giant's Causeway

1st Dam: Dream of Summer (GISW, $1,191,150), by Siberian Summer
2nd Dam: Mary's Dream, by Skywalker
3rd Dam: Proper Mary, by Properantes

Owner: Heinz Steinmann
Breeder: James C Weigel
Trainer: Mike Harrington

Creative Cause, who carried a solid worktab for a Mike Harrington barn that hits with 13% of its debut horses, attracted the services of Rafael Bejarano and went postward as a 6-1 shot in this salty event. Leaving from the rail draw, he was up to contest the pace with A Toe By Three (Stormello), and the pair set honest :22 and :45 flat fractions. Creative Cause began to reach out for more ground at the eighth pole, leaving his rival behind, and sailed home 4 3/4 lengths clear under a single crack of the whip. A $135,000 KEESEP yearling, Creative Cause was produced by Dream of Summer, an $8,000 yearling buyback who went on to win the 2005 GI Apple Blossom S. and three other graded events for owner/breeder James Weigel, breeder of this colt. For ThoroStride.com footage of the colt as a juvenile, click here. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $33,000.