Half-brother to Good Magic sells for $700,000

While 2017 champion juvenile male Good Magic makes headlines on the racetrack ahead of the Kentucky Derby, a half-brother by Speightstown garnered attention Wednesday at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. spring sale of 2-year-olds in training, going to Katsumi Yoshida of Northern Farm in Japan for $700,000.

The dark bay or brown colt named Wicked Wizard is out of the Grade 2-placed stakes-winning Hard Spun mare Glinda the Good, whose two foals to race include Grade 1 winner Good Magic. A son of Curlin, Good Magic won last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and most recently won the Grade 2 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland.

Bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings, Wicked Wizard is from the family of Grade 1 winner Magical Maiden, Grade 2 winner Magical Mile, and Grade 3 winners Exfactor and Take the Ribbon. The colt breezed an eighth of a mile in 10 seconds during the presale under-tack show over the Ocala Training Center’s all-weather Safetrack surface.

Northern Farm is a racing, breeding, and training operation based in Hokkaido, Japan, founded in 1993 as an offshoot of the late Zenya Yoshida’s Shadai Farm. Northern Farm’s racing stable has been Japan’s leading money earner each year since 2011 and has finished no worse than second by wins and earnings since 2007.

Katsumi Yoshida also operates Shadai Stallion Station in partnership with his brothers Haruya and Teruya. The farm’s roster includes the influential Deep Impact, King Kameameha, Lord Kanaloa, Heart’s Cry, and Kitasan Black.

Niall Brennan Stables consigned Wicked Wizard at the OBS sale as agent. The colt was purchased by British-based Paul Roy for $200,000 at last year’s Keeneland September yearling sale and was briefly sent to England before returning to the U.S. late last year.

This is the second home-run auction horse out of Glinda the Good, following Good Magic, who sold to e5 Racing for $1 million at the 2016 Keeneland September sale.