'He's an A+ physical and has every chance to become a top stallion' - Grade 1 winner Blazing Sevens to stand at Darby Dan Farm

Blazing Sevens, winner of the 2022 Champagne Stakes at two and second in the 2023 Preakness Stakes as a three-year-old, will stand at Darby Dan Farm in 2025.

A stud fee for the precocious son of the Eclipse champion 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 two and was unlucky not to have won the Preakness Stakes at three," said Bradley. "At 16.2 hands, Blazing Sevens is an A+ physical and has every chance to become a top stallion."

Blazing Sevens broke his maiden at Saratoga at the first time of asking, winning by six and a quarter lengths. In his second race, he finished a rallying third in the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga over a sloppy track. In the Champagne at Belmont Park, Blazing Sevens overcame a troubled start, made a sweeping move five-wide on the far turn, and stormed by the leaders in deep stretch to score by three and a quarter lengths for trainer Chad Brown.  

Blazing Sevens' sire is a son of champion and elite stallion Curlin. Good Magic won the 2017 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and was named that year's champion two-year-old male. At three, Good Magic won the Blue Grass Stakes, was runner-up in the 2018 Kentucky Derby, and won the Haskell Invitational Stakes. 

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 winner Muth, an Eclipse Award finalist last year at two; Pacific Classic Stakes winner Mixto; and Belmont Stakes 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 two- and three-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 one for three this year, winning an allowance optional claiming race at Aqueduct in his first start of the year, following by an unplaced finish in the Metropolitan Handicap 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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