Grade 1-winning millionaire Creative Cause and top 25 fourth-crop sire Copper Bullet will join the Clear Creek Stud stallion roster for the 2027 breeding season, the farm announced Oct. 20.
Creative Cause, a 17-year-old son of Giant's Causeway, has sired 423 winners that include 27 black-type stakes winners and nine graded stakes winners. His top runners to date include 2018 Stephen Foster Handicap (G1) winner Pavel ; and multiple graded stakes winners Significant Form, My Boy Jack, and Packs a Wahlop. His runners have collectively earned nearly $44 million.
Creative Cause has an advertised stud fee of $5,000 with a live foal stands and nurses guarantee. His fee is $4,500 if paid by Sept. 1.
Copper Bullet, an 11-year-old son of More Than Ready, won the Saratoga Special Stakes (G2) and was runner-up in the Bashford Manor Stakes (G3) and Razorback Handicap (G3).
Ranked in the top 12 of his 2023 freshman sire class, Copper Bullet has remained among the top 25 of his peers through this year's fourth-crop year. To date he's sired 36 winners and four black-type winners from modest foal crops. His top performers include five-time stakes winner Copper Tax, who also ran third in the 2024 Ohio Derby (G3); and, multiple Venezuelan champion Special Element, whose titles include 2025 Horse of the Year.
Copper Bullet's advertised stud fee will be $3,000 with a fee of $2,500 if paid by Sept. 1.
Both stallions will be available for inspection during Clear Creek's annual stallion show Dec. 5.
