The Book 4 opening session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale didn’t waste time getting started with a Good Magic colt running the bidding up to $700,000 with the masterful partnership of SF/Starlight/Madaket adding the Gainesway-consigned individual to their haul Sept. 18.
The bay, consigned as Hip 2009, appealed greatly to SF Racing’s managing partner Tom Ryan, who can’t get enough of the sophomore sire by Curlin . Good Magic’s first crop of 3-year-olds has had much success this year, including classic winner Mage , Preakness Stakes (G1) runner-up and 2022 Champagne Stakes (G1) victor Blazing Sevens , and grade 1-placed Reincarnate .
“He is a beautiful colt,” Ryan said. “We’ve been shopping to secure a Good Magic this week; you don’t know where they will land, and this colt landed early here in Book 4. When we bought Authentic here, he was Hip 2616. It’s a marathon, but you must shop the entire catalog.”
Book 4 has given Ryan success in the past; the 2020 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1)-winning champion son of Into Mischief , Authentic was sourced from the second week in 2018 from the Bridie Harrison consignment for $350,000.
Tom Ryan working through the barns during the Keeneland September Yearling Sale
“Good Magic is falling squarely in the parameters we are looking for,” Ryan commented. “We are proud to say we are investors in Good Magic himself and feel he is off to a tremendous start as a stallion, to come up with a Derby winner in his first group, and to have horses in almost all of the classic races this year. He’s a remarkably exciting young horse, and it’s within his scope to fill Curlin’s shoes, which is a big statement.”
The female line of the yearling colt, out of Beauty Buzz, by Bernardini, traces to the blue hen mare Star of Goshen. The stakes-winning Lord At War mare produced two-time grade 1-winning sire Pioneerof the Nile, which Hall of Famer Bob Baffert conditioned to $1.634 million in earnings, and the multiple graded-placed Forefathers by Gone West; both colts were winners for owner Zayat Stables.
Donato Lanni, signing as agent, inked the sales slip for the colt bred in Kentucky by Walmac Farm’s Gary Broad, who purchased the mare for $110,000 in foal to Accelerate during the 2020 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale from consignor Lane’s End.
Baffert trainee Reincarnate is entered in the Pennsylvania Derby (G1) Sept. 23 in search of his first grade 1 win; he is campaigned by the buying connections in partnership with Robert Masterson, Stonestreet Stables, Jay Schoenfarber, Waves Edge Capital, and Catherine Donovan.
