If the young Blue Chip Farm stallion Crazed isn’t a success as a stallion, he can’t blame it on the lack of quality mares in his first crop.

The handsome son of Credit Winner bred 140 mares, the maximum for a first-year trotting stallion in 2009 under new U.S. Trotting Association rules.

It isn’t the quantity that is so important for Crazed; it’s the quality.

While I won’t list all the mares bred to him as I did for Somebeachsomewhere and Deweycheatumnhowe, I can tell you that Crazed got a harem of lovely mares by all the prominent stallions.

Go down the list and you see mares by Pine Chip, Conway Hall, Muscles Yankee, Angus Hall, Self Possessed, Garland Lobell, Donerail, Malabar Man, SJ’s Photo, Balanced Image, Yankee Glide, Striking Sahbra, Cantab Hall and many other successful stallions.

The breeders who sent mares to Crazed include some big names like Hanover Shoe Farms, Valley High Stable, Kentuckiana Farms, Southwind Farm, ACL Stuteri, Perretti Farms, Dunroven Stud, White Birch, and others.

Of course, Blue Chip bred mares to its new trotting stallion as did Lindy Farms, which campaigned Crazed on the track.

Getting an attractive book of mares is so important in starting a young stallion and Crazed cleared that hurdle easily.