When your 3-year-old wins the Kentucky Derby (G1), your cell phone tends to explode.
Friends, family members, friends you didn’t know you had, relatives you didn’t know you had, acquaintances, former teachers.
It goes on and on and it covers people who want a piece of the action.
Ownership team of the latest Favorite Run for the Roses and Preakness Stakes (G1) winners, magician can prove it.
Ramiro Restrepo, a concurrent owner and breeder who first discovered the Mage at a 2-year-old sale, said four ownership groups have been set up but calls from ranchers about the career of the stallion being noticed.
“The racing part is locked. We got a number of calls about that Derby against Kentucky,” Restrepo said of connections including OGMA Investments, Sterling Racing and Thoroughbred Commonwealth. “We’re not that pretty so it’s nice to feel you’re beautiful and to be told you’re handsome. We’re discussing it (with the livestock farms) but we let it flow and let it go. come to us. We don’t have a timetable and we’re in no rush to do it.”
Adding to the glamor of Triple Crown’s opening game win is Mage from the first season of 2017 the 2-year-old men’s champion good magic , the 2018 Kentucky Derby runner-up, who had a quick start at school. Standing at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms in Xalapa near Paris, Ky., for $50,000, son of an elite gentleman make for curly selected two 1st grade winners and were represented by two starters in the Kentucky Derby (also 3rd grade winners) regeneration ) and three (also class 1 winner Blazing Sevens and bet winner Shows ) on May 20 Preakness at Racecourse Pimlico.
Restrepo says of the ranch: “It’s a great honor to have some of the most respected national and international names call on your horse. “With patience and moderation we’re looking at these things, but you know Preakness is the first thing that comes to our mind and we’ll address those as we approach them.”
Besides the pedigree of the Good Magic bred by Stonestreet and his family, the Mage offers much to the breeders at his disposal. He was placed in 1st grade for coach Gustavo Delgado (whose son Gustavo Jr. runs OGMA) prior to the May 6 Kentucky Derby with a second place finish in the Florida Derby (G1). Purchased for $290,000 from the Bloodstock Sequel shipment at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, it was bred by Robert Clay’s Grandview Equine in Kentucky.
His bang, the big brown mare Puca , ranked 2nd for Donegal Racing. She gave birth to only two ponies to race and the other one, shoots is a put stake gunman kid running in Skipat Stakes Saturday in Pimlico. The dam’s most recent ponies are a 2-year-old brother of Mage, purchased by Oracle Bloodstock for $325,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, and a yearning foal. McKinzie pony.
“It started all over again. Stonestreet Farm is an incredible show. Hill ‘n’ Dale’s recording speaks for itself,” said Restrepo. “The female family is (Donegal Racing CEO) Jerry Crawford, who’s had a lot of success. You put it all together and it’s quite respected from top to bottom. The horse is one. good looking individual It was bred by Grandview with (Alex Solis II) and (Jason) Litt involved—how smart are those people? to acknowledge all those people because so many things have come together The well-meaning horse from some wells -means to everyone, and I’m glad we were able to become people manager of that ship. We’ll see how far it goes.”
