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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SANTA YNEZ, Calif. (Sept. 15, 2003) – California stallion Truckee has been relocated to Magali Farms and will stand the 2004 breeding season for a fee of $3,500.
The 11-year-old son of Danzig has had two crops to race. He has sired the stakes winner Appealing Wayz and track record holder Truckee River. His first foal crop to race has produced 62 percent winners from starters.
He previously stood at Lakeview Thoroughbred Farm. (Source: CTBA.com)
SANTA YNEZ, Calif. (Aug. 26, 2003) -- California stallion Mr. Broad Blade has been relocated to Magali Farms and will stand the 2004 season for a $2,500 fee.
The 7-year-old stakes-winning son of Broad Brush previously stood at Mira Loma Thoroughbred Farm.
Mr. Broad Blade won the 1999 Ascot Handicap and $191,724 in earnings.Source: CTBA.com)
June 14, 1997 – Day Jewels, a 5-year-old daughter of Slew o'Gold, won the $40,000 Mayme Dotson Handicap at Stockton for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer and jockey Pedro Mercado. Day Jewels was the sixth foal out of the Lyphard mare Laday, who also produced graded-stakes winner Big Sur. Day Jewels also won the Watch Wendy and Santa Clara Handicaps among her eight career wins, with earnings of $254,610. She is now a broodmare, with two named foals. Day Jewels was bred by owners John and Betty Mabee and foaled at Golden Eagle Farm. (Source: CTBA Newsletter: June 13, 2003)
By: Steve Anderson- ARCADIA, Calif.
Few people have taken a more contrarian approach to breaking into horse racing than Rich and Gaby Sulpizio. [Click for Full Story]
A procession of high-priced broodmares led the Barretts 2003 January sale to a 19.4-percent increase in average and a 36-percent gain in gross in the annual auction that ended a two-day run Wednesday at Fairplex Park.
Seven broodmares sold for $40,000 or more on Wednesday, joining a $60,000-seller on Tuesday. The 225 broodmares sold averaged $9,614, 43.9 percent more than the 207 sold at the 2002 January sale.
The median for the sale gained 8.1 percent, from $3,700 to $4,000 and buybacks declined slightly, from 12.7 percent to 12.1 percent.
Catarina (#417), an 8-year-old unraced daughter of leading sire Storm Cat, was the sale-topper at $110,000. In foal to Malek (Chi), she was bought by Magali Ventures from the consignment of Berkey Bloodstock Services, agent for Ridder Thoroughbred Stable.
Seven of the sale's 10 highest prices were paid for broodmares selling on Wednesday. In addition to Catarina they were Lunch With Lulu (#603A) at $80,000, Brefny (#401) at $67,000, Beauty Mark (#389) and My Sweet Barbara (#640) at $60,000, Instant Recall (#551) at $45,000 and Fortunee (#509) at $42,000.
Magali Ventures was the sale's leading buyer with 10 purchased for $403,500, followed by agent Bruno De Berdt with 19 for $304,900. They were the only two buyers who spent more than $100,000.
Golden Eagle Farm sold all 39 horses in its consignment to led consignors at $611,000, followed by Berkey Bloodstock Services, agent for Ridder Thoroughbred Stable with 25 sold for $561,900.--January 23 (Source: The THOROUGHBRED NEWS DESK of the West)
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The two-day Winter Mixed Sale conducted by Barretts Equine Ltd. concluded Wednesday with 524 horses selling for $4,431,000 averaging $8,456 with a median of $4,000... [Click for Full Story]
The two-day Barretts Equine Ltd. January mixed sale closed Wednesday with gross sales of $4,431,000, up 36% from last year’s figure of $3,257,800. [Click for Full Story]
Grade 3 winner Until Sundown will stand his first season at Magali Farms near Santa Ynez, California, for $2,500. His owners, Sidney Port and partners, previously announced that the five-year-old son of Smart Strike would stand the 2003 season at Wafare Farm near Midway, Kentucky. [Click for Full Story]
Day Jewels, a ten-year-old Slew o’ Gold mare in foal to multiple Grade 2 winner Event of the Year, topped the two-day sale with a final bid of $145,000 from Magali Ventures LLC in the second session at the Barretts Equine Ltd. October mixed sale in Pomona, California. [Click for Full Story]
Champion sprinter Lit de Justice will stand the 2003 season in California after Magali Farms near Santa Ynez purchased the third-crop sire from Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs Kentucky near Midway. [Click for Full Story]