News - MAGNUS (AUS)
Here is the full list of 44 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia on Wednesday with winners and result details.
Widden Stud already had three stallions on their roster for this spring in the century club for siring 100 Australian winners this season in Zoustar, Nicconi and Magnus and added a fourth over the weekend when Star Witness also achieved the feat for the sixth year in a row!
Few trainers have more success with the progeny of Widden Stud’s evergreen stallion Magnus than Robbie Griffith, and he looks to have unearthed another likely type in Rey Magnerio.
The Dubai World Cup meeting at Meydan overnight featured the Group I Al Quoz Sprint (1200m) on turf with Australian bred sprinters The Astrologist (Zoustar) and Sight Seek (Magnus) acquitting themselves admirably to finish second and fourth.
The quiet achiever on the Widden Stud Victoria roster, Magnus passed a career milestone over the weekend posting the 500th winner of his long and fruitful career at stud.
The five-year-old Magnus mare How's The Serenity goes from strength to strength, making it back-to-back Listed stakes wins with a bloodless victory in Saturday's WATC Miss Andretti Stakes (1100m) at Ascot.
The Group III Bauhinia Sprint Trophy (1000m) at Sha Tin on Sunday produced a trifecta for Australian bred sprinters with Sight Success (Magnus) proving too good for Rewarding Together (Pierro) and Sky Field (Deep Field).
The $125,000 Listed WATC Summer Scorcher (1000m) at Ascot on New Year’s Day produced plenty of summer sizzle when Magnus sprinter How’s the Serenity led all the way to score her first Black Type win.
Widden Stud’s Magnus is rarely without a good sprinter and talented country galloper Front Page enjoyed the biggest of pay days when taking out the $2million ATC The Kosciuszko (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday.
Few stable have a better strike rate with the progeny of Magnus than Robbie Griffiths and Mathew de Kock, who have another progressive type in the three-year-old filly Entremet.
Here is the full list of 71 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
The 2021/ 2022 Australian racing season has brought continuing success on the track and in the sale ring to Widden Stud and our clients with the addition of new stallions this year holding promise for the future.
Our next chapter in the Price Point series of stories looks at a massive group of well credentialled sires that stand at $16,500 and range from proven G1 sires to first year at stud new boys, so trying to make sense of this group is certainly a task, but if this is what you have to spend then you better read on.
There were emotional scenes following Thursday’s $200,000 Iron Jack 2022 Wagga Town Plate after the injury-plagued Front Page put his opponents to the sword.
Bendigo-based trainer Josh Julius completed a successful hit and run mission with his Magnus gelding Just Folk in Saturday’s $200,000 Group II Hyland Race Colours Ajax Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill.
Two of South Australia’s finest faced off for the second time in the Listed Durbridge Stakes (1100m) at Morphettville on Saturday and it was Kemalpasa who reversed the decision over his old foe Behemoth.
A winner of the race two years ago Halvorsen turned back the clock in Saturday’s $250,000 Group III Standish Hcp (1200m) at Flemington.
A tough, grinding drag it out finish on a heavy track played into the wheelhouse of King Magnus, who bounced back from troubled fifth in the Group 1 Kennedy Cantala Stakes to claim Saturday’s $500,000 Listed TAB Cranbourne Cup (1600m).
Brilliant Magnus sprinter Halvorsen won the Group III VRC Standish Stakes up the Flemington straight in January 2020, but had been winless since then until returning to his favourite track on Thursday at his first run back from a spell.
Widden Stud’s quiet achiever Magnus made his presence felt on Cox Plate day with a new stakes-winner after progressive five year-old Just Folk landed the $300,000 Group II MVRC Crystal Mile (1600m) at Moonee Valley.