By Barbara J. Bayer
Posted: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:09 PM
Photo: Benoit Photo
Noble Court
California grade II winner Noble Court will enter stud in 2012 at Rich and Gaby Sulpizio’s Magali Farms near Santa Ynez, Calif. Noble Court, a 7-year-old, will stand for Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs. A fee will be announced later.
By the Seattle Slew stallion Doneraile Court out of Grey Dawn Grey, Noble Court won six of his first 11 starts including the San Vicente Stakes (gr. II) on the dirt at Santa Anita, the Ack Ack Handicap (gr. III) on Hollywood Park’s synthetic surface, and the Joe Hernandez Stakes on the turf at Santa Anita. Noble Court placed in five stakes including the Triple Bend Handicap (gr. I) and the Pat O’Brien Stakes (gr. I). He was retired this season with 14 top-three finishes from 20 starts and earnings of $465,230 after racing for Joy Ride Racing.
“Noble Court was a very precocious, versatile California racehorse. and he descends from a very active sire line,” said Magali manager Tom Hudson. “We are grateful that Mr. Stronach is showing his support of the California program with such a promising stallion prospect.”
“If you look at the emerging young sires at stud today, including Bernardini and Tapit , the Seattle Slew/Mr. Prospector influence is a very dominant cross,” said Stronach’s son, Adena Springs president Andy Stronach. “He’s a natural fit for California.”
Grey Dawn Grey’s sire, Grindstone, is a great-grandson of Mr. Prospector.
Noble Court was bred in Kentucky by Brereton C. Jones.
By Blood-Horse Staff
Posted: Monday, October 17, 2011 6:05 PM
Giacomo , the 2005 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner, will relocate to Rich and Gaby Sulpizio’s Magali Farms near Santa Ynez, Calif., for the 2012 breeding season. His fee will be announced later.
A half brother to grade I winner Tiago , Giacomo (Holy Bull —Set Them Free, by Stop the Music) stood in 2011 at Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs near Paris, Ky.
Runner-up in the Hollywood Futurity (gr. I) at 2, Giacomo won the Kentucky Derby over Closing Argument , with Afleet Alex finishing third. He then ran third in the Preakness Stakes (gr. I). Giacomo also placed in that year’s San Felipe Stakes (gr. II) and the Sham Stakes.
Giacomo accounted for the San Diego Handicap (gr. II) his 4-year-old season. In all, he won or placed in eight stakes and earned $2,537,316.
“We are very pleased to welcome Giacomo to Magali Farms and look forward to offering California breeders the only opportunity to breed to a Kentucky Derby winner in our state,” said Magali manager Tom Hudson.
“Giacomo won or placed in graded stakes in California at 2, 3, and 4 while based there,” said Adena Springs general manager Eric Hamelback. “We expect him to be well-received locally.”
With his first foals 3-year-olds this year, Giacomo is the sire of 10 stakes horses. His four current juvenile stakes horses include stakes winners Go Vivian Go and Jake Mo.
Written by ITapp | Jan 12, 2011
Grade I winner Global Hunter is new for 2011 at Magali Farms in Santa Ynez, California. The stallion joins the Magali Farms roster on TrueNicks, where breeders have access to unlimited complimentary nicking reports.
Global Hunter (ARG) (TrueNicks) was already a multiple graded stakes winner in his native Argentina when he arrived in the U.S. to compete on the California circuit. He proved to be grade I caliber on turf as well as the main track, winning the Eddie Read (gr. I) and American Handicap (gr. II) on turf, and placing third to Zensational in the Bing Crosby (gr. I) on synthetic. In all, Global Hunter won or placed in five graded events from six to 11 furlongs—three on turf, one on dirt, and one on synthetic.
While Global Hunter's pedigree may be unfamiliar to American breeders, he hails from one of the strongest families in the stud book. His dam is blue hen mare Griffe de Paris (by Telescopico, from the Round Table sire line). Griffe de Paris is the dam of five grade/group stakes winners, including three gr. I. Herself a group I winner, she is also the second dam of Argentine champion older mare Ollagua and Brazilian Oaks (gr. I) winner Una Beleza.
Global Hunter is by Jade Hunter, winner of the Donn and Gulfstream Park Handicaps (both gr. I) and sire of 47 stakes winners for over $33 million in progeny earnings. His best performers are Allen Paulson-bred multiple grade I winners Diazo, Yagli, and 2002 Horse of the Year Azeri.
Global Hunter will stand for a $2,500 fee in 2011.
Magali Farms has added three more stallions to their TrueNicks roster in Olmodavor, Roi Charmant, and Mr. Broad Blade.
Olmodavor (TrueNicks,SRO) will stand at Magali Farms beginning in 2011. The son of A.P. Indy was a grade III winner and placed in the Hollywood Gold Cup (gr. I). His dam is grade I winner Corrazona (by El Gran Senor), a half sister to Wood Memorial (gr. I) winner Thirty Six Red. At stud, Olmodavor has sired 61 winners and four stakes winners for more than $2.4 million in progeny earnings. His 2011 fee is $5,000.
Roi Charmant (TrueNicks) is a grade II-placed son of Evansville Slew and earner of over $300,000. He placed in the San Miguel (gr. II) as a three-year-old and in the Potrero Grande Breeders' Cup Handicap (gr. III) at age four. Roi Charmant won on dirt, turf, and synthetic, and posted triple-digit Beyers on four occasions. His dam is the winning Seattle Dancer mare Cantina, who has produced seven winners from as many foals. Roi Charmant will stand for a $1,500 fee.
Ascot Handicap winner and grade II-placed Mr. Broad Blade (TrueNicks) is by Broad Brush out of the grade III-winning Highland Blade mare Miss High Blade. At stud, Mr. Broad Blade has sired 14 winners, including stakes winner Bellsblade, stakes-placed Dirty Dish Mitch, and Tampa Bay Derby (gr. III) third Justdontcallmejeri. Mr. Broad Blade stands for $1,500.
Below is the full Magali Farms roster:
(Source: Truenicks.com)
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Global Hunter, a grade I winner in California and a group II winner in his native Argentina, will stand in 2011 at Rich and Gaby Sulpizio's Magali Farms near Santa Ynez, Calif. His fee is $2,500 live foal.
Global Hunter, who underwent surgery after suffering a leg injury after winning the American Handicap (gr. IIT) at Hollywood Park in July, won or placed in 19 of 30 races and earned $611,365. His biggest score came in the 2009 Eddie Read Stakes (gr. IT) over Awesome Gem at Del Mar. Global Hunter has recovered nicely from his operation at the Alamo Pintado Equine Medical Center near Los Olivos, Calif. “He’s doing well and looks great,” said Magali manager Tom Hudson. Foaled in 2003, Global Hunter is by Jade Hunter and is one of nine South American group winners descending from his dam, Griffe de Paris (by Telescopico). Plans call for Global Hunter to stand the 2011 Southern Hemisphere season in Argentina. |
10/28/2010: Olmodavor To Magali Farms
Frank Stronach's Adena Springs Farm announced that Olmodavor (AP. Indy-Conazona, by El Gran Senor) will be relocated to Magali Farms in Santa Ynez, where he will stand the 2011 breeding season for $5,000, stands and nurses. Olmodavor, winner of the grade III Native Diver Handicap and grade III Whirlaway Handicap and runner-up in the grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup, earned $706,540 on the track.
"I always loved Olmodavor as a racehorse. He was classy and he had heart," said Tom Hudson of Magali Farms. "He's impressive and he has a phenomenal pedigree. I think he has all the qualities California breeders are looking for in a scallion. He's the real deal and his runners are winning on both synthetic and dirt. Magali Farms is honored to have the chance to stand an Adena Springs stallion.
They run a first rate operation with world class breeding stock and we're excited about this partnership and the opportunities that Olmodavor will bring to California breeders. At stud, the ll-year-old stallion has produced California stakes winner and track record setter Miss Dixie Dancer.
'We are excited to be partnering with Magali Farms," said Adena Springs President Andy Stronach. "They are doing an outstanding job with former Adena Springs stallion Lit De Justice [El Gran Senor], and we are confident that California breeders will enjoy the same success with Olmodavor. His progeny have been successful on both dirt and synthetic tracks, and with Santa Anita moving back to a dirt surface we feel that breeders will be looking for a versatile stallion like Olmodavor."
Source: CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED WEEKLY
By David Schmitz
Updated: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 9:51 AM
Posted: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 12:01 PM
Graded stakes winner Olmodavor will stand in 2011 in the state where he did his best racing. The 11-year-old stallion will hold court in California at Rich and Gaby Sulpizio’s Magali Farms near Santa Ynez. His 2011 fee is $5,000.
At Hollywood Park, Olmodavor won the Native Diver Handicap (gr. III) and ran second in the Hollywood Gold Cup (gr. I). At Santa Anita, the son of A.P. Indy ran second to Medaglia d’Oro in the Strub Stakes (gr. II) and finished third in the San Pasqual Handicap (gr. II).
Away from the Golden State, Olmodavor captured the Whirlaway Handicap (gr. III) and finished second to subsequent Horse of the Year Mineshaft in the New Orleans Handicap (gr. II).
As a stallion, Olmodavor has sired eight stakes horses and the earners of $2.3 million. His runners include stakes winners Brickyardtradition, High Mist, Miss Dixie Dancer, and Zlatan.
Olmodavor, who began his stud career at Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs Farm near Midway, Ky., stood in 2010 at Adena Springs/Gardiner Farms near Caledon, Ontario, Canada. He remains the property of an Adena Springs syndicate.
Olmodavor, a half brother to stakes winner Slow Down, is out of the grade I-winning El Gran Senor mare Corrazona.
The sweet smell of success, Part I
By Pat Murphy, Contributing Writer
Does Rich Sulpizio use a crystal ball to run his Thoroughbred racing farm successfully? The Thoroughbred racing industry, like many other businesses, in these perilous times, is suffering. In years past, the Valley was a center of fabulous California Thoroughbred breeding farms. Now, with the closing of River Edge Farm, our large establishments are down to Tommy Town Thoroughbreds, Lone Oak and the Sulpizio’s Magali Farm. Gabi Sulpizio tells me their success is due to a combination of Tom Hudson with his knowledgeable management skills, their devoted employees, and her husband’s talent for running the farm like a business enterprise. They have made some strategic changes.
Tom invites me on a tour of the farm and first we visit the training center with its 72-stall barn and 25 grass paddocks. Here they do lay-ups, which are the conditioning of yearlings and the training of race horses right on their own track. The famous jockey Jerry Lambert is on the staff and gives us a wave as we pass. “Right now, we are conditioning 12 yearlings for the Barrett’s select sale in October,” says Tom. “Once in a while, we send some Cal-breds back to Kentucky to the Keeneland sale. Our farm is 238 acres and our well pumps 1,600 gpm. The water’s free, but the electricity to pump it is so costly that we’re considering going to solar or wind power.”
We pass 10 and 20 acre pastures where the yearling fillies are in one pasture and the yearling colts in another. “We raise 80 to 100 foals a year now,” he tells me. “We used to raise 125 to 150, but have cut back. About four years ago, we were breeding 300-400 mares to our stallions and had 560 head of horses here at one point.”
We both agree that there are few things more fun than watching a horse race, and that it is sure to come back. But it is in drastic need of the right kind of promotion. The answer to having successful racetracks is getting the involvement of young people, just as the raising of Thoroughbreds for racing needs an infusion of young breeders. So, exciting promotions that appeal to college age and older people who want to do something different and have a good time may very well be the answer. The strange fact is that at one point, a group of Valley Thoroughbred breeders were actually trying to buy Santa Anita Racetrack but were turned down.
Now we pull up next to the foaling barn and see the comfortable big box stalls where the mares give birth to their valuable foals. “It’s all on camera, Tom says,” Rich and Gabi were in Australia and watched one baby being born, last year. We keep three to four people on duty here at night. And the mares that are close to foaling are up here. But we have a man checking the pastures with a big spotlight about every five minutes to make sure the horses are O.K. After foaling, they go to another special barn.” As we enter the a-joining breeding area, we see that the ground is covered with black shaved rubber that comes from Kentucky. It’s a soft surface so that if a stallion or mare should fall they are not injured. They also walk horses healing from leg injuries here on the soft springy surface. Then an elegant stallion is led by, and is introduced as Roi Charmant.
“He was a very fast sprinter and has won about $380,000,” Tom tells me. “Now he is standing here at Magali, and his owner breeds all his mares to him.” But it’s a handsome Arabian gentleman that teases all the Thoroughbred mares to see if they are in heat. His name is Galeon, and he was one of the Magness stallions when that farm was located here.
“We stand four stallions here now. We are way down on our numbers of mares but plan to add to our mare population this year. With the changes we have made, we are now extremely profitable and don’t have to take a dollar out of Rich’s pocket.” So how does Rich make all this work? He has been greatly successful as the President of Qualcomm Communications. They design the chips that operate cell phones. In addition, he and his son-in-law invented a new system that improved the existing horse software. It’s called Paddock Pro and cuts down on time spent for billing. Tom says that they went from spending 60 hours monthly for billing to 10 hours. It also keeps track of exactly where each horse is. It is such a hit that it is widely used in Kentucky now.
Next week we’ll visit with Gabi Sulpizio, who loved horses as a little girl but never dreamed that she would one day be the co-owner of a magnificent Thoroughbred Racing establishment.
Jockeys riding Magali Thoroughbreds on their 5/8-mile racetrack.
A view of Magali’s verdant pastures and happy horses.
Their first stallion, Lit de Justice
-September 23, 2010 (Source: Santa Ynez Valley Journal)
MAGALI FARMS: A GROWING FORCE
by: Larry Bortstein
Rich and Gaby Sulpizio’s 238-acre Magali Farms in Santa Ynez, California, which has become one of the state’s major forces in Thoroughbred breeding and racing in less than eight years, has been named the 2008 TOBA (Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association) State Breeder of the Year for California. Along with TOBA award winners from 27 other states and Canada, the Sulpizios will be honored in Lexington, Kentucky, during a ceremony at Keeneland Racecourse on Thursday, Sept. 10, and during a dinner at Spendthrift Farms the following night. Tom Hudson, the Farm Manager at Magali since its inception in late 2001, will represent the Sulpizios in Kentucky. “They are thrilled to get this honor,” Hudson said. “They’ve really come a long way since they started this place with no horses.” The Sulpizios have been married for 37 years. Magali Farms is named for Gaby, whose full name is Maria Gabriela, but was called “Magali” as a girl growing up in Costa Rica. A native of Kenilworth, Utah, Rich is a retired chief executive of Qualcomm, Inc., the San Diego-based wirelsss communications giant, after which the home stadium of the National Football League’s San Diego Chargers is named. Magali Farms occupies the land in the shadow of the Santa Ynez Mountains that was once home to Mandysland Farm and later to Magness Racing Ventures. It is a full-service facility, offering breeding, boarding, breaking, training, lay-up and sales preparation services, and is home to more than 400 horses, including six stallions. The roster of stallions is headed by 12-year-old Decarchy (Distant View—Tousaud, by El Gran Senor), who won or placed in seven graded stakes and is a half-brother to 2003 Belmont Stakes (grade I) winner Empire Maker. The top first-crop sire in California in 2007, Decarchy also was the leading second-crop sire last year and heads the list of third-crop sires this year. His major winner has been Harlene (out of stakes winner Tiara Glow) who, as a threeyear- old, captured the $250,000 Cal National Snow Chief Stakes at Hollywood Park and accounted for $183,337 of Magali’s $803,234 purse earnings total for 2008. Ten Most Wanted, a grade I winner of $1,718,460, joined the Magali lineup as a nine-year-old this year and his first crop of California-breds will be foaled in 2010. He won the 2003 Travers Stakes at Saratoga by 4 1/2 lengths, posting a 112 Beyer speed figure, the highest that year for a threeyear- old at 1 1/4 miles. Venerable 19-year-old Lit de Justice, the grade I Breeders’ Cup Sprint champion in 1996, and a millionaire, was Magali’s first major stallion, coming to the farm in 2002. To date, he has produced 43 stakes horses among the earners of more than $19 million. Good Journey, a 13-year-old grade I-winning son of international sire of sires Nureyev, has produced a couple of group winners in Australia, and is performing as a shuttle stallion between that country and Magali. Atticus, 17, another son of Nureyev, is a grade I-winning millionaire and a world record-setting miler on the turf, and Event of the Year, 14, a dual grade II-winning son of 1977 Triple Crown champion Seattle Slew, are also highly regarded Magali residents. Magali Farms has also been the recent home of the eightyear- old retired gelding Lava Man, winner of three straight runnings of the Hollywood Gold Cup (2005 to 2007) and who is being prepared for his future life as an honored guest at the Old Friends retirement center in Georgetown, Kentucky. “That has a lot to do with the long relationship we’ve had with Doug O’Neill,” Hudson said.
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Grade 1 winning millionaire Ten Most Wanted has been purchased by Magali Farms, LLC in Santa Ynez, California.
Farm manager Tom Hudson is excited about having the talented Deputy Commander son join their stallion roster. “I am so impressed with his two year olds we’ve had in training” said Hudson. “When he became available, we knew he’d be a perfect fit for California breeders.”
Ten Most Wanted won the 2003 Grade 1 Travers Stakes by 4+1/2 lengths, earning a 112 Beyer, that year's highest winning speed figure for a 3-year-old at 1+1/4 miles. While again posting triple digit Beyers, Ten Most Wanted won the Grade 2 Super Derby Stakes, the Grade 2 Illinois Derby and finished a close second in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes. At four, he won his final start top-weighted by nearly 7 lengths in the Grade 3 National Jockey Club Handicap bringing his earnings to $1,718,460.
His first dam, Wanted Again is from the family of leading sire, More Than Ready whose progeny earnings have exceeded $31,000,000 and is a sire of 51 Stakes winners. She is also a half sister to multiple Grade 1 winner, Cutlass Reality ($1,405,660).
Ten Most Wanted will stand the 2009 season for $5,000.
Lindsay Park Stud’s Good Journey has attracted overwhelming attention from breeders this season and looks like covering a high quality book of mares. He has more than 150 bookings in 2008, which would see him break Barely a Moment’s South Australian record of 148 set last season.
Mares visiting Good Journey this season include Royal Purler (G1 winner), Umber (G3 winner), Grand Strategy (1/2 sister to G1 winner Grand Journey), Marsiliana (3/4 sister to Caulfielld Cup winner Arctic Scent), Elusive Doll (1/2 sister to G1 winner Hard To Get), Violet Haze (full sister to G1 winner Notoire) as well as daughters of Group One winners Ambala and Kissing Cousin.
Good Journey was paraded last Sunday September 7th to a group of local SA breeders who braved the wet conditions for a first look at one of the country’s most promising sires. Some photos from the day are included below.
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Good Journey has arrived safely at Lindsay Park Stud in readiness for the covering season.
Thus far bookings have been very strong, with just over 150 mares expected to visit him this season. This would see Barely a Moment's South Australian record of 148 in 2007 surpassed.
Millionaire Event of the Year will stand in 2006 at Rich and Gaby Sulpizio's Magali Farms near Santa Ynez, Calif.
Formerly at Betty Mabee's Golden Eagle Farm near Ramona, Calif., he will stand as the property of Magali and Pablo Suarez' Suarez Racing.
Event of the Year is enjoying his best year, with progeny earnings of $1.4 million. His son, Follow the Rainbow, won the El Cajon Stakes at Del Mar, and daughter Thrilling Victory took the Bay Meadows Oaks on grass. For his career, Event of the Year has sired three stakes winners, four stakes-placed runners, and earners of $2.5 million.
Bred by Mabee and her late husband, John Mabee, Event of the Year raced in the Golden Eagle name. He won three stakes, including the Strub Stakes (gr. II), and his three stakes-placings included a runner-up effort in the Santa Anita Handicap (gr. I).
Event of the Year, who was produced from the Mr. Prospector mare Classic Event, will stand for $4,000, down from his 2005 fee of $6,500.
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Sometimes the best things happen by accident. Take Magali Farms, for instance.
Four years ago, Gaby and Rich Sulpizio were looking at a 40-acre parcel of land. The property abuts what is now the beautiful Santa Ynez, Calif., farm that stands some of the best stallions in Southern California: Lit de Justice, Decarchy, Atticus, Fusaichi Zenon, Mr. Broad Blade, and Truckee. In those days, the Sulpizios weren’t interested in breeding horses. They wanted to grow grapes and create a vineyard. But along the way to becoming the next Mondavis, the couple took a turn toward speed.
They met farm manager Tom Hudson. “Tom Hudson was the general manager of a private farm for someone. The 40 acres we were interested in were part of that farm,” recalled Rich Sulpizio. “My Realtor brought him along to tell us about the irrigation system and other information about the property. I made the mistake of asking what was next door. Tom said, ‘That’s a working horse farm and it’s for sale, too.’ Tom showed Gaby and me around. He just happened to have a business plan in the back of his Suburban which he pulled out and showed us.”
That plan was to take the farm, which was then in use as a private Arabian show stable, and transform it into a top-of-the-line Thoroughbred rehab, training, and breeding farm. It was going to take a lot of work. And though Sulpizio, who had recently retired as president of Qualcomm Communications (he still serves as a company director), had never been closer to a horse than watching Westerns on television, he knew good business idea when he saw it. Besides, he was up for a challenge. “I knew nothing about horses,” admitted Sulpizio in the Magali Farms office as he looked out the window that faces the stallion paddocks. “I’ve learned a bit since then. Gaby had always loved horses. She used to ride when she was younger. As soon as we walked around here, I could see it in Gaby’s eyes that she wanted to be involved again. So we made the initial investment. Then Tom, Gaby, and I agreed on how much money we were going to allocate to the venture and gave ourselves 18 months to see what we could accomplish. “I ’m pleased to say that within 18 months, we were a pretty good working farm.”
According to Hudson and Sulpizio, after three years the farm is still a work in progress—they want to add more barns here and pastures there. They’ve already done plenty. Even during one of December’s nastiest storms, the kind that sent rock slides along the freeways and Southern Californians moaning about the cold, Magali Farms looked stunning.
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Already stakes-placed, Injustice became Lit de Justice's 10th stakes winner Saturday with a powerful stretch run that overcame adversity and yielded victory in the $40,000 Cy-Fair Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park. After four starts at Oaklawn Park and 10 at three different Louisiana tracks, the 3-year-old Injustice ventured west across the Sabine River for her first Texas start and made it a success. Her win in the Cy-Fair was her third in her last four starts and her fourth in her last six. Her earlier stakes placing came last June at Louisiana Downs when she was second in the Dixie Miss Stakes. In the six-furlong Cy-Fair, she went two wide around the turn, was blocked, angled out four wide to pass horses, and, finally clear, seized the lead with a late rush to win by a length and a quarter. Injustice, bred in Kentucky by Mt. Joy Stables and Dan Dressel, is owned by Peggy Graham and trained by Jerry Hardin. Her sire, champion sprinter Lit de Justice, stands at Magali Farms, Santa Ynez, Calif.--December 21. (Source: The THOROUGHBRED SHOWCASE of the West)
Santa Ynez, CA — Atticus, the Grade 1 stakes winning millionaire who set the world record time of 1:31.89 for a mile in the Arcadia H. at Santa Anita Park, has been purchased from Three Chimneys Farm in Kentucky and will stand the 2005 season at Magali Farms in Santa Ynez, California.
At three, Atticus was a Group 3 stakes winner in France and narrowly missed winning the Classic Group 1 French Two Thousand Guineas. Returning to North America, Atticus won the Grade 3 Kentucky Classic H. as a 4-year-old and finished third in the Grade 2 Shoemaker Breeders’ Cup Mile.
Atticus enjoyed his best year of racing at age five, winning both starts, including the Grade 1 Oaklawn H., defeating former world record miler Isitingood, and the Grade 2 Arcadia H. in a world record time of 1:31.89 for the mile. He retired with earnings of $1,205,933.
Atticus’ first three crops have earned more than $3.4 million. He ranked among the leading third-crop sires of 2003 and is represented by eight stakes horses to date, including three stakes winners in his initial crop. In 2004, his current runners have tallied earnings of $1.1 million thus far. Atticus has sired Group 1-performing Fantastic Story, French stakes winner Petite Speciale, and North American stakes-placed Atti Girl Fergie.
“We think Atticus is going to be very well received in California. He’s a Grade 1 winner on dirt and a Grade 2 world record holder on turf, whose out of the Northern Dancer-Secretariat line. He’s got everything you would want in a stallion,” commented Magali Farms manager Tom Hudson.
Atticus, by Nureyev, is out of the multiple Group stakes-winning Secretariat daughter Athyka, from the family of champion and leading sire Val de Loir. Secretariat is also the broodmare sire of leading stallions Gone West, Storm Cat, and A.P. Indy.
Atticus was purchased by Suarez Racing, Inc. and will stand for $4,000. with a live foal guarantee.
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