CARPE DIEM
TOP 5 LOUISIANA LIFETIME SIRE, OVER $23 MILLION IN EARNINGS
GIANT'S CAUSEWAY - REBRIDLED DREAMS, BY UNBRIDLED'S SONG
DOMINANT G1 WINNER AT 2 & 3 BY GIANT'S CAUSEWAY
SEIZE THE NIGHT ($486,927) opened 2025 with a win January 5th in the Tinsel S. at Oaklawn Park. By March CARPE DIEM sired his fourth Group/Graded stakes winner when DON'T LOSE TIME won Clasico Miguel A. Checa Eguiguren-G3 and stakes winner JAMIES INHERITANCE was 3rd Queen of the Green H. Lifetime CARPE DIEM runners average $69,055 in earnings, and is the sire of 35 stakes horses, 15 stakes winners.
CARPE DIEM possessed the combination of speed, precociousness, and Grade 1 dirt ability of his great sire GIANT'S CAUSEWAY. Nineteen sons of GIANT’S CAUSEWAY stand at stud in 2025 around the world, including Not This Time ($175,000 fee).
From a record-breaking sale topper, to a TDN Rising Star-worthy debut at Saratoga, all the way up to his second Grade 1 triumph in the $1 million Blue Grass Stakes S.-G1 that made him one of the favorites for the prestigious Kentucky Derby-G1, CARPE DIEM raced with one of the best 3-year-old crops the industry has seen in recent history.
A Leading Sixth Crop Sire in North America Cumulative, CARPE DIEM has sired 70% winners/starters, 35 Stakes Horses, 15 Stakes Winners, 4 Group/Graded Stakes Winners and his leading money winner is CHANCHENG PRINCE ($1,435,369).
CARPE DIEM winning the Grade 1 Toyota Blue Grass S. at Keeneland
Lifetime Stakes Horses by CARPE DIEM
SEIZE THE NIGHT ($486,927), won 2025 Tinsel S. and set
NTR ELP 9 F 1:47.54
FINGAL’S CAVE ($409,500), Multiple SW/Graded Placed
MONFORTE ($323,663), Multiple SW/SP
SOMEDAY IS TODAY ($294,922), SW/SP
ANGEL NADESHIKO ($274,510), Graded SW/Multiple SP
BELLA AURORA ($223,140), Multiple SW/SP
KINZA ($219,500), Multiple Graded SW/G2 SP
THISSMYTIME ($216,253), SW/G2 SP
MAKIN MY MOVE ($214,930), SW
WAIT FOR NAIROBI ($165,405), SW/Multiple SP
JAMIES INHERITANCE ($154,066), Multiple SW/SP
SUMMERTIME MAGIC ($81,800), SW at 2
DON’T LOSE TIME ($90,131), Group 3 SW/Multiple Group 1 SP
VAN DAELEN ($56,230), 4-Time SW
AVYA D’ORO ($45,039), Multiple Group SW
Gogo Shoes ($280,221), SP, NCR AQU 6 F 1:07.31
Roman Giant ($243,665), SP at 2
O Captain ($226,455), Grade 2 SP
Sister Annie ($218,488), SP
Day Plan ($155,300), Multiple SP
Miss Marie ($154,580), SP
Romancer ($146,433), SP at 2
Harris Bay $143,190), Multiple SP
Aquitania Arrival ($129,793), Multiple SP
Tyler’s Dream ($121,396), Multiple SP
Sweet Kisses ($116,127), SP at 2
Carpe Fortuna ($98,424), Multiple SP
Champagne Poetry ($82,455), SP
Circle Back Girl, Multiple SP
No Foolery Here, SP
Zabardast, Group SP
Broad Approval, Multiple SP
Savaro, Graded SP
Centrodelantero, Group 1 SP
Posada, Multiple SP
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2025 FEE: $3,500 LIVE FOAL
(payable when foal stands and nurses)
2012, ch, entered stud in 2016
CARPE DIEM carries Northern Dancer in his fourth generation through his sire line and in the fifth generation through his dam’s sire line, carrying Mr. Prospector in the fifth generation of his maternal sire. CARPE DIEM does well with many sires, finding stakes success with runners from sire lines of A.P. Indy, Quality Road, Galileo (IRE), Kitten’s Joy, Smart Strike, Tapit, Arch, Street Cry, Street Sense, Ghostzapper, etc.
Sire of the first Graded SW of 2024 by a Louisiana Sire, multiple GSW KINZA
