Brody's Cause | |
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Sire | Giant's Causeway |
Grandsire | Storm Cat |
Dam | Sweet Breanna |
Damsire | Sahm |
Sex | Colt |
Foaled | March 17, 2013 |
Country | United States |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | William Arvin Jr., Gabriel Duignan & Petaluma Bloodstock |
Owner | Albaugh Family Stable |
Trainer | Dale Romans |
Record | 7: 3-0-1 |
Earnings | $1,123,138 |
Major wins | |
Breeders' Futurity Stakes (2015) Blue Grass Stakes (2016) |
Brody's Cause (foaled March 17, 2013) is an active American Thoroughbred racehorse. He has won Grade I races at two and three years of age and was regarded as a contender for the 2016 Kentucky Derby. After finishing unplaced on his debut he won a maiden race and then took the Grade I Breeders' Futurity Stakes before finishing third in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. In 2016 he ran poorly in the Tampa Bay Derby before taking the Blue Grass Stakes.
Brody's Cause is a bay horse with a white blaze and three white socks bred in Kentucky by William Arvin Jr., Gabriel Duignan & Petaluma Bloodstock. He was sired by Giant's Causeway, who was the European Horse of the Year in 2000 and later won three sires' championships in North America. His other good winners have included Shamardal, Footstepsinthesand, Ghanaati, Take Charge Brandi and Rite of Passage. Brody's Cause's dam Sweet Breanna showed good racing form in her native Canada, winning three times and being placed in the La Lorgnette Stakes and the Woodbine Oaks. She was a female-line descendant of Secretariat's grand-dam Imperatrice.
In September 2014 the yearling was consigned to the Keeneland sale and was bought for $350,000 by Dennis and Susan Albaugh's Albaugh Family Stable. The colt was sent into training with Dale Romans.