News - MAGNUS (AUS)
David Hayes and Zac Purton combined to win the Class Three sprint at Happy Valley on Wednesday night with lightly raced five year-old Magnus gelding Harmony N Blessed breaking the course record for 1000m.
It’s the sort of result we all dream of. In February, a 5YO by the name of Ashman was sold for $27,500 via the Inglis Online Sale.
Proven Group 1 sires Nicconi (119), Magnus (119) and Star Witness (100) all recorded a century of winners in season 2020/21 with the trio combining for 338 winners, 542 wins and over $24 million in progeny earnings.
Widden Stud Victoria have three stallions on the roster this spring to all sire 100 plus winners in Star Witness, Nicconi and Magnus, who ended his season on a high with a metropolitan treble on Saturday.
Widden Stud Victoria is in a unique position this spring in having three stallions on the roster that have all sired 100 winners this season with Star Witness joining his barn mates Nicconi and Magnus in the ‘Century Club’ on Sunday.
I’ve sired a Group I winner in five of the past six seasons, I’ve got a 70% winner to runner career strike rate, I’ve sired 10 individual million dollar earners and I’m a Top 10 stallion this season for winners- so who am I?
Widden Stud recruit Magnus showed why he is the king of VOBIS stallions when his son Mahamedeis captured the $250,000 Surewise Vobis Gold Heath at Caulfield - but that was the appetizer for a day when winners came from as far afield as Alice Springs, Kalgoorlie and Kyneton and a Group III triumph at Morphettville.
With the Group 1 CF Orr Stakes winner Streets Of Avalon and the dual Group II VRC TAB Stakes winner and Group 1 Oakleigh Plate third Kemalpasa leading the way for Magnus this season, the success on the track is being reflected in the sales ring.
While WS Cox Plate hero Sir Dragonet (IRE) was never a factor in Saturday's $500,000 Group 1 Neds CF Orr Stakes (1400m), the Shane Nichols-trained Streets Of Avalon was ready to add another chapter to his storied career.
It took eight preparations for Streets Of Avalon to win first up, and the six-year-old son of Magnus chose the right spot to do it in Friday nights Group II Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley.
A quickfire race to race double for Sun Stud’s prolific Magnus, and it was oh so close to three on the trot at Sandown on Wednesday.
Leading Victorian based sire by winners, MAGNUS has notched up winner #50 for the 2020/21 season – placing him 7th overall on the national premiership.
Well, that was quick! MAGNUS sprinter, Black Magnum, has toppled both the hot priced favourite AND the Canterbury track record with a sizzling display in the Bowermans Commercial Furniture Handicap on Wednesday.
Future Group 1 winners Gytrash and Nature Strip have won the last two editions of the Listed VRC AR Creswick Stakes and few would be surprised if the exciting three-year-old gelding Front Page makes his presence felt at the highest level after the son of Magnus treated a high-class field with contempt in Saturday’s feature at Flemington.
When the tough times come as they most surely have, you need to remove as much risk as possible and astute breeders will be looking for the value sires doing a great job and in Victoria that means Magnus.
They say things come in threes and for a fleeting moment and it looked the case for Sun Stud in the opening Derby Day race at Flemington.
Sun Stud’s Magnus started the Melbourne Cup Carnival at Flemington on a winning note when his progressive sprinter Kemalpasa made light of the wet conditions to score a stylish win in the Group II VRC Linlithgow Stakes (1200m), a race won by his sire back in 2006 when it was known as The Age Classic.
They don’t come much more honest than the 4yo Magnus gelding Kemalpasa who took his record to seven wins from his last 10 starts when opening his stakes account in Saturday’s Listed Durbridge Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville.
With three seconds from his last four starts, Malibu Style deserved a change of luck in Saturday’s Listed Vic Sprint Series Final (1200m) at Flemington but it didn’t go to plan when the seven-year-old son of Magnus missed the start.
The phenomenal run of success for leading trainer, Robbie Griffiths – via the progeny of Sun Stud’s Group One stallion MAGNUS – continued at Caulfield’s rich VOBIS meeting today with HALVORSEN capturing the Gold Dash over 1100m in commanding fashion.