A Maryland product tracing back to a mare by the Shamrock Farm stallion Christopher R., Andiemac outdid her immediate female family when she became the first black-type producer for three generations thanks to the exploits of her son Coffeewithchris, bred by NTRA president and CEO Tom Rooney. In first-year stallion Muth, she meets a mate who also over-achieved compared to his page, to the tune of a $2 million price tag and Grade 1 victories at 2YO and 3YO.
Coffeewithchris was sired by Curlin’s first crop son Ride On Curlin, whose claim to fame was a 2nd-place finish in the G1 Preakness Stakes at 3YO, and Coffeewithchris won a pair of open company black-type events in Maryland at 2YO and 3YO. He placed in six more black-type events on his way to earning $284k for trainer John Salzman, although he couldn’t replicate his sire’s finish when he contested his own Preakness. In order to try and replicate the success of Coffeewithchris, we were searching for a Curlin-line stallion to pair Andiemac with in 2025, and Muth brings plenty to the table.
First off, he’s a son of Curlin’s own Eclipse Champion son Good Magic, who is off to a superb start at stud thanks to the classic winners Mage and Dornoch in his first two crops. And then Mage and Dornoch are out of a mare by the Danzig grandson Big Brown, and Good Magic’s other G1W Mixto is also out of a mare by a Danzig grandson in Concerto, from just a dozen runners bred on this pattern. As such, Muth rates an “A++” on TrueNicks with Andiemac, whose sire, Outflanker, is a son of Danzig.
An additional pedigree combination here that we like is that Muth is out of an Uncle Mo mare, and Uncle Mo’s sire-line (that of Indian Charlie and In Excess) has crossed well over Outflanker mares to produce G3W Madman Diaries and another black-type winner. (In fact, Andiemac was previously bred to a son of Uncle Mo for this reason.)
Muth’s own qualifications also make him appealing as a stallion prospect — a beautiful, leggy individual with strength and scope, he sold for $2 million as a juvenile in-training to Zedan Racing and went on to win the G1 American Pharoah at 2YO and the G1 Arkansas Derby at 3YO for trainer Bob Baffert. Those proclivities match nicely with Coffeewithchris’s accomplishments, and we like the physical pairing here, too, since Andiemac could use a little stretch.
Whatever way you look at it, this mating has tons of potential and we’re excited to see the sibling to Coffeewithchris that Andiemac produces in 2026!