Last year, we sent several of our own mares to our favorite Mid-Atlantic stallion, Blofeld, and three of them will be returning to him again in ‘25:
- I’m Engaged went to Blofeld in 2024 with hopes of producing a successful regionally-bred runner after her prior matings had all been more commercially-motivated. By going to Blofeld with a mare that’s produced 100% winners to named foals, we decided to play the long game and look at potential breeder bonuses rather than auction income (you can read the entire post from last year here). She caught early last spring and delivered her Blofeld foal on February 13th — a strapping, leggy filly that was exactly what we hoped for from the pairing. I’m Engaged will head right back to Blofeld in March.
- We had acquired One That Got Away in December of ‘23 from Larry Johnson (who cultivated generations of her female family prior to his recent passing) specifically to breed to Blofeld for a multitude of reasons. You can read that entire post here, but the highlights include the fact that Blofeld has gotten 75% black-type horses to runners out of A.P. Indy-line mares so far, and One That Got Away is a half to a pair of black-type winners by another Elusive Quality-line stallion. Unfortunately, One That Got Away slipped her first Blofeld pregnancy sometime last fall, but we’ll be hoping for a more successful outcome following this ‘25 mating.
One That Got Away at St. Omer’s Farm. - Meanwhile, Seville’s Princess produced her first Blofeld foal back in 2022, a huge, gorgeous filly for our friends at Wasabi Ventures Stables who showed (and continues to show — she’s training towards her debut for Wasabi with their string in Kentucky and is now known as Blo By the Field) sufficient promise that Wasabi returned this mare to Blofeld in ‘24 (you can read the full text of last year’s write-up here, which also links back to that ‘21 recommended mating, too). We recently bought Seville’s Princess from Wasabi, and will send her right back to Blofeld again in ‘25 after she foals. This is a cross that we continue to have high hopes for, given the success that Quality Road has had with Galileo mares, and given how gorgeous Blo By the Field is.
Seville’s Princess at St. Omer’s Farm.
While nothing much has changed regarding our logic in sending this trio of mares back to Blofeld again, his sire stats have continued to impress, and even improve. To wit, so 68 of Blofeld’s 94 foals have run, and 58 of them are winners (85%). Eight of them are black-type winners (12%), and eight more are black-type placed (for 24% black-type horses to runners, which is astronomical). His average earnings per starter sits at $100,427 (and his highest earner has just over $400k in the bank — meaning the average is not skewed by a single outlier, as further witnessed by his median earnings per runner of $72,452). His AEI vs. CI ratio remains outstanding at 1.45 vs. 1.16. Although Blofeld’s 2YO crop of 2024 was his smallest ever at just 19 foals, he has a pair of black-type winners among the eight runners from that bunch, including the undefeated, three-time Ohio-bred stakes winner Silver Kiss and open company winner Beautiful Blome.
And Blofeld’s 2024 total of five black-type winners from 55 runners gives him the highest percentage (9.1%) of any stallion anywhere in the country!
With at least 55 yearlings having just turned 2YO for 2025, we fully expect Blofeld to move further up the Mid-Atlantic sire rankings (which are based on gross earnings, rather than percentages) by this time next year. And given that he’s been the most popular stallion in the region for three years running, he will maintain that trajectory for the foreseeable future.
