Crabs N Beer had started three times prior to yesterday’s contest, his best result a third-place finish at Delaware August 5. But yesterday under jockey Jaime Rodriguez, Crabs N Beer grabbed the lead early in the $25,000 maiden claimer for two-year-olds and was never challenged en route to the win in 1:10.89 for six furlongs on the fast main track.

Crabs N Beer is trained by Jamie Ness for Charles Blanford. Out of the winning Kitalpha mare Get’m Up Pronto, Crabs N Beer was bred in Maryland by Kyle Horlacher.

Blofeld, a son of Quality Road, won three graded stakes and $745,420 in his 14-race career. He won a pair of graded events as a juvenile, and after missing most of his sophomore season, he won the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap as a four-year-old.

Blofeld was trained during his racing career by Rusty Arnold for owners Glencrest Farm LLC and JSM Equine LLC. He had been purchased for $225,000 as a two-year-old in training. Blofeld is out of the stakes-winning Storm Cat mare Storm Minstrel, a Virginia-bred who was a homebred for the late Ned Evans.

During the 2021 breeding season, Blofeld stood for $4,000.