Crisp

Crisp raced ten times, winning three races, finishing second once and third once. Her two most important successes came during her three-year-old campaign in 2010, when she won both the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes and the Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks.

Both principal victories were recorded over 8½ furlongs. Together they established her strongest racing profile: a filly capable of succeeding at graded level around two turns and progressing from a preparatory Grade 3 into one of the leading American races for three-year-old fillies.

• Foaled: 2 February 2007
• Country of breeding: United States
• Sex and colour: Dark bay mare
• Career record: 10 starts, 3 wins, 1 second and 1 third
• Major victory: Santa Anita Oaks, Grade 1, 2010
• Other graded victory: Santa Ysabel Stakes, Grade 3, 2010
• Principal winning distance: 8½ furlongs
• Later role: Broodmare in Japan
• Recorded progeny: Six

Crisp’s victory in the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes was an important step in her rise through the three-year-old filly division. Contested over 8½ furlongs, it gave her a graded-stakes success and demonstrated that she could handle the distance that would also define her greatest achievement.

The Santa Ysabel mattered not only as a notable win in its own right, but as the immediate foundation of her Grade 1 profile. It marked Crisp as more than an ordinary winner and placed her in position to contest a more prestigious race over the same distance.

After racing in the United States, Crisp entered broodmare service in Japan. Her broodmare record links an American Grade 1 winner with a succession of internationally prominent sires, including American Pharoah, Screen Hero, Lord Kanaloa, Heart’s Cry, Orfevre and Le Vent Se Leve.

Six progeny are recorded for her, with foals spanning from 2017 to 2025. This later phase extended Crisp’s place in Thoroughbred breeding well beyond her compact ten-race career.

Crisp’s 2017 foal, Danon Pharaoh, is by American Pharoah. The mating brought together Crisp’s own American racing background and Grade 1 credentials with a sire who was also imported into the international breeding context. Danon Pharaoh is the earliest of her six recorded progeny.

Mikki Ranger, foaled in 2019, is by Screen Hero. This mating introduced a Japanese sire line into Crisp’s broodmare record and illustrates the range of stallions to which she was bred after entering the Japanese breeding population.

Her 2020 foal, Kamino Morado, is by Lord Kanaloa. The pairing continued Crisp’s integration into Japanese breeding, combining her American pedigree—El Corredor over a Sir Cat mare—with one of Japan’s established stallion lines.

Mosukurosser was foaled in 2021 and is by Heart’s Cry. This was another mating with a major Japanese sire, further broadening the bloodline combinations represented among Crisp’s offspring.

Crisp’s 2024 foal, Shine Love, is by Orfevre. As with her earlier Japanese-sired offspring, the mating placed her Grade 1-winning American background alongside a distinguished domestic sire line.

Her sixth recorded foal was born on 14 March 2025. Listed as Crisp’s 2025 foal, the colt is by Le Vent Se Leve. He extended her recorded produce line across nine breeding years, from Danon Pharaoh in 2017 through the 2025 season.