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Home / Blog / 2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Analyzeyurspending

2018 Housatonic Recommended Matings – Analyzeyurspending

June 1, 2018 by Housatonic Bloodstock

Blofeld
Blofeld

Analyzeyurspending
Analyzeyurspending

One of the hottest young stallions in the country right now is Quality Road, who stands at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky for a 2018 advertised stud fee of $70,000, after siring a pair of 2017 Eclipse Award Champions in Abel Tasman and Caledonia Road.

Caledonia Road, who won last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies-G1 before being named the champion of that division, is one of three Grade 1 winners sired by Quality Road out of mares by Dixie Union, from just nine foals bred on that cross who are at least 3-years-old now — the other two  are Klimt, a Grade 1-winning juvenile and one of the most popular first-year stallions standing in Kentucky this year, and Salty, who triumphed at the top level on this year’s Kentucky Derby undercard.

The winning filly Analyzeyurspending is a first-crop daughter of last year’s leading freshman sire, Overanalyze, who is by Dixie Union — and we think this makes her a perfect fit for one of Maryland’s most exciting first year sires of 2018, Blofeld, who is from the first-crop of Quality Road (the nicking programs agree, as the mating is good for a “20/20” rating on G1 Goldmine, and “A++” ratings from both TrueNicks and eNicks).

As a racehorse, Blofeld broke his maiden first-time out going 5 furlongs at Saratoga as a well-bet 2-year-old with a big reputation, before stepping straight into Graded stakes company. He overcame a troubled trip to get up gamely in the Grade 2 Futurity at Belmont in his second start, going 6 furlongs, and then stretched out to a mile and romped by five lengths in the Grade 2 Nashua at Aqueduct, closing out his juvenile campaign three-for-three.

Blofeld started twice at 3, including a 3rd-place finish in the William Walker Stakes, and at 4 he returned to his best form to triumph in last year’s Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap going a mile, over the likes of Stanford and Anchor Down.  He retired last summer to Murmur Farm with four wins from 14 starts, and $745,420 in earnings, and is covering his first mares this spring.

From well-cultivated Ned Evans families on both the top and bottom sides of his pedigree (he shares a fourth dam with the 2017 Horse of the Year, Gun Runner, and others appearing in his female family include Horse of the Year Saint Liam), Blofeld was a $135,000 weanling, then a $275,000 yearling and a $225,000 2-year-old in-training purchase.  He is a big, beautiful horse with plenty of length and leg, and ought to help stretch Analyzeyurspending’s foal out a bit.

With the the Maryland breeding program on the upswing, it will be exciting to have a Maryland-bred, Maryland-sired foal from the first crop of a top racehorse like Blofeld and out of the hard-knocking, well-bred Analyzeyurspending next spring.

Blofeld wins the G2 Futurity

Blofeld wins the G2 Nashua

Blofeld wins the G2 Gulfstream Park Handicap

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