The Bjorn Baker stable have announced two-time Group One winning mare Stefi Magnetica has been retired.
A daughter of All Too Hard and Group I Stradbroke winner Mid Summer Music, she was bred by Cressfield Stud and bought by Bjorn Baker and Clarke Bloodstock for $140,000 at the 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, utimately becoming a crowd favourite, and retires with a record of five wins and nine placings from a 26 start career which yielded over $7.3million.
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Interestingly, given her consistency and toughness at the highest level later in her career, she did not win her maiden until start six, and that was at country Wellington.
Followed up at her next start, six months later, by a Benchmark 58 win at Orange.
Not your well-worn path to Group One success it has to be said, but she ultimately emulated her dam by winning the Group I Stradbroke as a three-year-old filly, then crowned her career with a win in the Group I Doncaster last year.
Her record also included seconds in the Group I Surround Stakes and Queen Of The Turf Stakes.
