James Weigel delighted with Creative Cause in the Kentucky Derby
The 3-year-old Heinz Steinmann owned fairly dark gray colt, Creative Cause, has been doing his best under the shadows of many other Kentucky Derby contenders, by just being consistent, and he looks like one of those colts who really come to their own on
big occasions.
It doesn’t get bigger than the Grade 1, $2 million Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on the first week of May, and Creative Cause, who has done mostly everything right on the way to the Derby, should be proud of his achievements and where he stands right
now.
There is another, who is honoured and feels blessed because of Creative Cause running in the Run for the Roses, and that is Giant’s Causeway son’s breeder, James Weigel.
Weigel plans to be at Churchill Downs cheering for Creative Cause on 5 May, and he went on to say that it is once in a lifetime opportunity for a little breeder to cheer for a Kentucky Derby runner.
James Weigel has a small breeding program with only three broodmares, including the dam of Creative Cause, Dream of Summer, and the full sister of her, Marry by Summer.
He plans to get all the offsprings and sell them at auctions. “They go to the sales unless they are injured or are not conformed well enough and would bring peanuts,” he said. “Then we sell them privately for as much as we can get out of them. Sometimes
we have to give them away.”
Weigel ended up selling Dream of Summer back in the day, but he bought her back from Mary Knight’s consignment at the 2000 Barretts October yearling auction.
“Marianne kept telling me what a good-looking horse Dream of Summer was and that I shouldn’t let her go cheap,” Weigel said. “I didn’t put in a written reserve, but I had it fixed in my own mind that I wanted $10,000 for her. When the bidding stopped at
$7,000, I grabbed her back at $8,000.”
Creative Cause has won 4 out of 8 career races, with two second place finishes and he never finished worse than third in all of his races.
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