CARPE DIEM
TOP 3 LOUISIANA LIFETIME SIRE, OVER $25 MILLION IN EARNINGS
GIANT'S CAUSEWAY - REBRIDLED DREAMS, BY UNBRIDLED'S SONG
DOMINANT G1 WINNER AT 2 & 3 BY GIANT'S CAUSEWAY
CARPE DIEM's top stakes winner of 2025, SEIZE THE NIGHT ($575,627), opened up 2026 with an allowance win at Oaklawn Park, one year after taking the Tinsel S. over the same track. The multiple stakes performer has accumulated 6 wins, 10 wins/placed over six years, displaying the racing longevity of his sire.
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 2026 around the world, including #2 Sire of 2025 NOT THIS TIME ($250,000 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 Sire in North America Cumulative, CARPE DIEM has sired 70% winners/starters, 36 Stakes Horses, 15 Stakes Winners, 4 Group/Graded Stakes Winners, 9 Group/Graded Stakes Horses and his leading money winner is CHANCHENG PRINCE ($1,435,369). Runners by CARPE DIEM average $68,885 on the track.
CARPE DIEM winning the Grade 1 Toyota Blue Grass S. at Keeneland
Sire of the first Graded SW KINZA
Lifetime Stakes Horses by CARPE DIEM
ANGEL NADESHIKO ($274,510), Graded SW/Multiple SP
KINZA ($219,500), Multiple Graded SW/G2 SP
DON’T LOSE TIME ($97,839), Group 3 SW/Multiple Group 1 SP
AVYA D’ORO ($45,039), Multiple Group SW
FINGAL’S CAVE ($409,500), Multiple SW/Graded Placed
THISSMYTIME ($216,253), SW/G2 SP
SEIZE THE NIGHT ($575,627), won 2025 Tinsel S. and set NTR ELP 9 F 1:47.54
MONFORTE ($323,663), Multiple SW/SP
SOMEDAY IS TODAY ($294,922), SW/SP
BELLA AURORA ($223,140), Multiple SW/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
VAN DAELEN ($62,950), 4-Time SW
Centrodelantero, Group 1 SP
O Captain ($227,685), Grade 2 SP
Zabardast, Group SP
Savaro, Graded SP
Gogo Shoes ($280,221), SP, NCR AQU 6 F 1:07.31
Roman Giant ($253,485), SP at 2
Sister Annie ($218,488), SP
Aquitania Arrival ($189,977), Multiple SP
Day Plan ($155,300), Multiple SP
Miss Marie ($154,580), SP
Romancer ($146,433), SP at 2
Harris Bay ($143,190), 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 ($70,461), Multiple SP
No Foolery Here, SP
Broad Approval, Multiple SP
Posada, Multiple SP
Seizethedaydude, SP at 2
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.
REFERENCE LINKS
2026 FEE: $3,500 LIVE FOAL
(payable when foal stands and nurses)
2012, ch, entered stud in 2016