Although he has only 93 foals of racing age, runners by the Maryland stallion Blofeld continue to put up incredible statistics, and he remains the most promising stallion in the Mid-Atlantic as his biggest crop of 2YOs readies to reach the races in 2025.
Thus far, 66 of those 93 foals have run, and 55 of them are winners (83%). Eight of them are black-type winners (12.12%), and seven more are black-type placed (for 22.7% black-type horses to runners, which is astronomical). His average earnings per starter sits at $101,9641 (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 $76,817). His AEI vs. CI ratio remains outstanding at 1.47 vs. 1.11. And although Blofeld’s 2YO crop of 2024 is his smallest ever at just 19 foals, he has a pair of black-type winners among the seven runners from that bunch, including the undefeated, three-time Ohio-bred stakes winner Silver Kiss and open company winner Beautiful Blome.
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With at least 55 yearlings about to turn 2 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.
His proven status makes him a perfect match for a mare being bred for the first time (especially one for whose offspring the plan is to race rather than sell), and we’re excited to send Twelveo’clockrock his way in 2025 for her initial trip to the breeding shed.
A three-time winner on dirt and turf from 5-1/2 furlongs to a mile, Twelveo’clockrock is a daughter of Street Sense who traces to R. Larry Johnson’s foundation mare Ran’s Chick, from the same branch as black-type winners Never Enough Time, Strike the Moon, Walk of Stars, and the latter’s 2024 black-type runners Mindframe (2nd in the G1 Belmont and G1 Haskell) and Hollywood Walk. In fact, Twelveo’clockrock is quite closely related to Walk of Stars, as both are daughters of Street Sense.
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We believe that Twelveo’clockrock will be an excellent fit for Blofeld for a couple of reasons — first, the aforementioned Never Enough Time (Maryland-bred champion older female of 2020) is from the same Gone West sire-line that is responsible for Blofeld (as are numerous black-type winners by local sire Great Notion, albeit from different branches of the female family), so the sire-line has crossed well with her female family. Then Twelveo’clockrock’s own dam Clockstrucktwelve is a daughter of Malibu Moon, and Blofeld has had several stakes successes with his runners out of mares from that A.P. Indy sire-line.
Although Blofeld doesn’t have any runners from the Street Cry sire-line yet, there is a black-type winner by Quality Road out of a Street Cry mare, and a Grade 2-placed runner by Quality Road out of a Street Sense mare — so that’s promising for this particular pairing even if the “C” TrueNicks rating is from a cross that’s too broad to be really meaningful.
And finally, one of the things that has us most excited for this mating is how perfectly like-to-like Blofeld’s and Twelveo’clockrock’s physicals are. Both are good-sized, stoutly-made horses with excellent bone. They are both slightly long-backed, with the same hip and shoulder angles. We can’t wait to see the foal that they produce, and to race it ourselves through a successful career!