Magician Bound for Italy
Magician | Racing Post
Irish highweight Magician (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}– Absolutelyfabulous {Ire}, by Mozart {Ire}) will stand in Italy next season, Jour de Galop reported on Tuesday. A two-time champion in Ireland for Coolmore partners and Aidan O’Brien, the 2013 G1 Irish 2000 Guineas and GI Breeders’ Cup Turf hero spent the better part of four seasons at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in America (2015-2018) and stood the end of the 2018 season at Coolmore Stud in Ireland. The sire of US black-type winner Miss My Rose, the 10-year-old moved to Haras de Corlay in France for 2019 and this year. The bay, whose oldest offspring are four, will be managed by a partnership of Mattia Cadrobbi, Marco Bozzi and Guido Berardelli. A fee and stud farm will be announced later.
by : TDN
CHEONGDAM DOKKI MONSTERS YTN CUP RIVALS IN RECORD BUSTING ROMP
For the second time in a month, Cheongdam Dokki savaged his rivals over 2000M at Seoul Racecourse on Sunday, claiming an easy win in the G3 YTN Cup and in the process broke Dongbanui Gangja’s eleven-year-old track record for the distance.
Just four weeks after his dominant victory in the Herald Business Cup and facing a largely similar set of opponents, Cheongdam Dokki was always set to be a prohibitive favourite in a race which served as the second leg of the “Stayer Series”. And just as he did in the Herald, he stamped his authority on the race right from the start, crossing from gate eight under jockey Park Tae Jong and straight into the lead.
At his best, Cheongdam Dokki’s cruising speed is so superior to his local rivals at least in the absence of Moonhak Chief – that there was never a danger of him doing too much too soon and being caught. Instead he continued to run away from them, recording a nine-length winning margin on the line and taking six tenths of a second off the mark set by Dongbanui Gangja in the Owners’ Association Trophy in June 2009.
Behind Cheongdam Dokki, Tiz Plan and Shamrocker came home 2nd and 3rd in a repeat of the Herald Business trifecta. Buhwarui Banseok ran 4th.
The final leg of the Stayer Series is the G2 Busan Mayor’s Cup which is currently scheduled for August 16th at the slightly shorter distance of 1800M. All being well, Cheongdam Dokki would then likely be pointed to the Korea Cup on September 13th, the KRA Cup Classic on October 11th and then conclude his year taking another crack at a race that so far eludes him, the Grand Prix Stakes.
A six-year-old American-bred gelding by To Honor And Serve and out of Elusive Gold (by Strike The Gold), Cheongdam Dokki has now won 15 of 29 career starts for prize money of just over KRW 2.8 Billion.
