Magician (horse)

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Magician
Irish 2000 Guineas (2013)
Breeders' Cup Turf (2013)
Mooresbridge Stakes (2014)
Awards
Cartier Champion Three-year-old Colt (2013)

Magician (foaled 24 April 2010) is an Irish

Irish 2000 Guineas. After a long break, he returned in November to win the Breeders' Cup Turf and a month later was voted Cartier Champion Three-year-old Colt
.

Background

Magician is a bay colt with a white

champion sire on four occasions.[2] Galileo's other progeny include Rip Van Winkle, Nathaniel, Cape Blanco, New Approach and Frankel.[3] Magician's dam, Absolutelyfabulous was a successful sprinter who won the Listed Cork Stakes and finished second in the Ballyogan Stakes. Absolutelyfabulous is a great-granddaughter of Luv Luvin', an American broodmare whose other descendants include Henrythenavigator and the Irish 2000 Guineas winner Saffron Walden.[4]

Magician was trained throughout his racing career by Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle.

Racing career

2012: two-year-old season

Magician began his racing career in a seven

Joseph O'Brien to finish second, half a length behind the Dermot Weld-trained favourite Mouteab.[6] Joseph O'Brien rode the colt again when he started 4/5 favourite for a maiden race at the Curragh
on 14 October. Racing over a mile on heavy ground, Magician took the lead inside the final quarter mile and drew clear of his opponents in the closing stages to win by six lengths from Bunairgead.[7] Two weeks later, Magician was moved up in class to contest the Group Three Killavullan Stakes over seven furlongs at Leopardstown. Seamie Heffernan sent the colt into an early lead, but after being overtaken, and then badly hampered in the straight, Magician was eased down to finish last of the seven runners behind Big Break.[8]

2013: three-year-old season

On his first appearance of 2013, Magician was sent to the United Kingdom on 10 May to contest the

2000 Guineas at Newmarket. Ridden by Joseph O'Brien, Magician was settled just behind the leaders before moving to the front approaching the final furlong. In the closing stages he accelerated clear of the field and won "comfortably" by three and a half lengths from his stable companion Gale Force Ten.[11] Magician's Derby odds were cut to 6/1 after the race, but Coolmore's owner John Magnier declined to commit the horse to the race, saying that he had "all kinds of options."[12]

Magician did not contest the Derby (won by his stable companion

2000 Guineas winner Dawn Approach but was badly hampered early in the straight and finished last of the nine runners after being eased down in the closing stages.[13]

Magician was off the course for four and a half months before his next start, the Breeders' Cup Turf at Santa Anita Park on 2 November. The colt was matched against older horses for the first time and tested over one and a half miles, three furlongs further than he had run before. Ridden by Ryan Moore, he was held up at the back of the field before producing a strong run in the straight to win by half a length from The Fugue.

In November, Magician was voted Champion Three-year-old Colt at the

Cartier Racing Awards.[14]

2014: four-year-old season

On his four-year-old debut, Magician started the 5/2 favourite for the

weight-for-age race the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on 26 July but ran poorly and finished sixth of the eight runners, beaten fourteen lengths by the winner Taghrooda
.

In August the colt was sent to the United States to contest the thirty-second running of the Arlington Million and was made favourite at odds of 9/5. With no obvious front-runners in the race, Joseph O'Brien opted to employ new tactics as he disputed the lead from the start. He gained a narrow advantage in the straight but was caught 75 yards from the wire and beaten by the 11.5/1 outsider Hardest Core. Magician returned to America to defend the Breeders' Cup Turf, but was withdrawn three days before the race after returning from exercise lame in his right foreleg.

Assessment

In the

Toronado. He was also the highest-rated three-year-old to win a race in North America.[15]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Magician (IRE), bay colt, 2010[1]
Sire
Galileo (IRE)
1998 		Sadler's Wells (USA)
1981 		Northern Dancer Nearctic
Natalma
Fairy Bridge Bold Reason
Special
Urban Sea (USA)
ch. 1989 		Miswaki Mr. Prospector
Hopespringseternal
Allegretta Lombard
Anatevka
Dam
Absolutelyfabulous (IRE)
2003 		Mozart (IRE)
1998 		Danehill Danzig
Razyana
Victoria Cross Spectacular Bid
Glowing Tribute
Lady Windermere (IRE)
1997 		Lake Coniston Bluebird
Persian Polly
Brigid Irish River
Luv Luvin' (Family 9-b)[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Magician pedigree". Equineline. 8 May 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Leading Sires of Great Britain and Ireland". Tbheritage.com. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  3. ^ "Galileo Stud Record". Racing Post. 15 February 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Sweepstakes Mare – Family 9-b". Thoroughbred Bloodlines. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  5. ^ "Irish Stallion Farms Maiden result". Racing Post. 8 September 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  6. ^ "Irish Stallion Farms Maiden result". Racing Post. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  7. ^ "Mongey Communications Maiden Race result". Racing Post. 14 October 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  8. ^ "Killavullan Stakes result". Racing Post. 27 October 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  9. ^ "Dee Stakes result". Racing Post. 10 May 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  10. ^ "Magician conjures Aidan O'Brien's second Derby warm-up win". BBC. 10 May 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  11. ^ "Irish 2000 Guineas result". Racing Post. 25 May 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  12. ^ Keogh, Frank (25 May 2013). "Magician wins Irish 2,000 Guineas at Curragh for Aidan O'Brien". BBC. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  13. ^ "St James's Palace Stakes". Racing Post. 18 June 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  14. ^ Graham Green (12 November 2013). "Arc heroine Treve crowned Cartier horse of the year". Racing Post. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
  15. ^ "2013 World's Best Racehorse Rankings". IFHA. January 2013. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
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