Blazing Sevens, winner of the 2022 Champagne Stakes (G1) at 2 and second in the 2023 Preakness Stakes (G1) as a 3-year-old, will stand at Darby Dan Farm in 2025. A stud fee for the precocious son of the 2017 Eclipse champion 2-year-old male and top stallion Good Magic will be announced at the conclusion of his racing career. Plans call for Blazing Sevens to be syndicated in the near future.
Peter Bradley, bloodstock adviser for owner Rodeo Creek Racing, brokered the deal to stand Blazing Sevens at Darby Dan.
"Blazing Sevens was an exceptional racehorse at 2 and was unlucky not to have won the Preakness Stakes at 3," said Bradley. "At 16.2 hands, Blazing Sevens is an A-plus physical and has every chance to become a top stallion."
Blazing Sevens broke his maiden at Saratoga Race Course at first asking, winning by 6 1/4 lengths. In his second race, he finished a rallying third in the 2022 Hopeful Stakes (G1) at Saratoga over a sloppy track. In the Champagne at Belmont Park, Blazing Sevens overcame a troubled start, made a sweeping five-wide move on the far turn, and stormed by the leaders in deep stretch to score by 3 1/4 lengths for trainer Chad Brown.
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Blazing Sevens' sire is a son of multiple champion and elite stallion Curlin . Good Magic won the 2017 Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) and was named that year's champion 2-year-old male. At 3, Good Magic won the 2018 Blue Grass Stakes (G2), was runner-up in the Kentucky Derby (G1), and won the Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1). He has sired five grade 1 winners from his first two crops and is already the sire of two Eclipse Award finalists, including 2023 Kentucky Derby winner Mage . This year, Good Magic is represented by Arkansas Derby (G1) winner Muth, an Eclipse Award finalist last year at 2; Pacific Classic Stakes (G1) winner Mixto; and Belmont Stakes (G1) and Haskell Stakes winner Dornoch .
"We are thrilled to announce the addition of a precocious grade 1 son of Good Magic to our roster," said Stuart Fitzgibbon, stallion director at Darby Dan Farm. "Blazing Sevens was a true standout in his 2- and 3-year-old racing seasons. Coupled with his exceptional conformation and pedigree, Blazing Sevens is a highly desirable stallion. Blazing Sevens beat or placed against the absolute best of his generation, just missing a classic, the 2023 Preakness Stakes, by a head to National Treasure."
Blazing Sevens is out of the winning Warrior's Reward mare Trophy Girl, a half sister to grade 1 winner King David and stakes winner Bertsgoldenmissile. Bred in Kentucky by distinguished breeder Tracy Farmer, Blazing Sevens was a $225,000 graduate of The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton's select yearling sale.
Blazing Seven is 1-for-3 this year, winning an allowance optional claiming race at Aqueduct Racetrack in his first start of the year, following by an unplaced finish in June 8 Metropolitan Handicap (G1) at Saratoga. He has been breezing regularly in recent weeks at Belmont Park. He is 3-1-3 in 11 starts with earnings of $994,850.
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