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Although Areuhavingfunyet was purchased earlier this year as a racing prospect, things did not work out as planned and she won’t get a chance to improve on the strong 2nd-place finish that she attained in her second start. Luckily, she is a filly with a nice page and should make a great match in the breeding shed with our favorite Maryland stallion, Blofeld.
Areuhavingfunyet is out of the black-type placed Kitty’s Legend and is a half-sister to the ten-time winning, black-type placed earner of $224k Kitty’s Turn, as well as to the dam of black-type winner and Grade 3-placed Pretty Greeley. Pretty Greeley is by Greeley’s Conquest, a grandson of Gone West, who has also sired the Grade 3 winner Greeley and Ben, who appears under Areuhavingfunyet’s third dam. Blofeld, of course, is also sired by a grandson of Gone West in Quality Road, which is the firs thing that jumped out at us in looking at options for Areuhavingfunyet.
There are a couple of even more interesting tidbits that make Blofeld a good choice for Areuhavingfunyet:
- First, the talented black-type winner Turn and Dance (also the dam of a Grade 3 winner) is a half-sister to Areuhavingfunyet’s second dam and sired by a horse named Dance Bid. Dance Bid is a half-brother to Quality Road’s second dam, Winglet, both of them out of Highest Trump.
- And second, Grade 1 winner Love Lock, who also appears under Areuhavingfunyet’s third dam, is sired by a stallion called Silver Ghost, who comes from the same Ned Evans female family as Blofeld does.
Also under Areuhavingfunyet’s third dam are Grade 3 winner Stallwalkin’ Dude and black-type winner and $936k-earner Golden Yank, who are both by sons of Storm Cat; and Storm Cat is Blofeld’s broodmare sire, so he brings that Overbrook scion’s genes to the this mating as well.
Blofeld himself has yet to produce any foals of racing age out of mares from the Holy Bull sire-line, but TrueNicks calls this an “A”+” match on the basis of Grade 2 winner Seduire and a pair of other stakes winners by Elusive Quality-line stallions from Holy Bull-line mares.
We always prefer to start a young mare with a proven stallion whenever possible, and Blofeld is firmly in that category these days with statistics that you’re sick of “hearing” us recite: With three crops totaling 74 foals so far of racing age, he has 46 winners from 56 to race, including 5 black-type winners (9% to runners) and another 6 black-type placed offspring (for an astronomical 20% black-type earners/runners). His average starter earns north of $86k and his runners’ median earnings sits at over $66k. He sports a fantastic 1.46 AEI/1.12 CI ratio – meaning he’s achieving these stats without significant help from his mates. Off the strength of these racetrack results, Blofeld has covered more mares than any stallion in the state for the last two years.
Physically, Areuhavingfunyet is a big, leggy, well-made mare who will make a nice case of like-to-like with Blofeld, and they have every right to make a successful Maryland-bred foal together for 2025!