Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Good Magic

Good Magic

Curlin–Glinda the Good, by Hard Spun

Bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Farm ($1 million Keeneland September yearling purchase by e Five Racing Thoroughbreds)

Runners by two-time Horse of the Year Curlin made up the exacta in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, with eventual divisional champion Good Magic powering to a 4 1/2-length score over Solomini. Those colts key a strong hand of 3-year-olds for their sire, who has become a powerhouse source of stamina.

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The Smart Strike stallion has produced a classic winner or classic-placed runner from each of his first five crops, beginning with 2013 Belmont Stakes winner Palace Malice. Curlin was then represented by Ride On Curlin, runner-up in the 2014 Preakness Stakes, and Keen Ice, third to American Pharoah in the 2015 Belmont Stakes before defeating the Triple Crown winner in the Travers at 1 1/4 miles. Exaggerator finished second in the Kentucky Derby before winning the Preakness, and Irish War Cry was second in last year’s Belmont.

These colts followed in the footsteps of their long-winded sire. Curlin competed with distinction in all three 2007 Triple Crown races, highlighted by his victory in the Preakness over Street Sense, and won four Grade 1/Group 1 events at the classic distance of 1 1/4 miles, taking the 2007 Breeders’ Cup Classic, 2008 Dubai World Cup, and two editions of the Jockey Club Gold Cup.

Good Magic’s dam, Glinda the Good, a daughter of Curlin’s old racetrack rival Hard Spun, scored all her wins at a mile or longer, including the Instant Racing Stakes at Oaklawn and the Island Fashion Stakes at Sunland. The mare is a half-sister to several stakes winners and producers, and this female family has been a successful cross with Curlin. Glinda the Good’s half-sisters include Grade 3 Churchill Distaff Turf Mile winner Take the Ribbon; Grade 2-placed route stakes winner Flash Forward (by Curlin); stakes winners Bright Magic, Flash Mash, and Hot War; and stakes-placed winners Inside Passage and Oysters.

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Bright Magic is the dam of Grade 3 winner Exfactor and stakes winner Market Magic, while Take the Ribbon is the dam of Group 3-placed Bookrunner. Another half sister Overnightsensation is the dam of Group 3 winner Handsome Franco, by Curlin.

This is the extended family of multiple Grade 1 winner Magical Maiden, dam of Grade 1 winner Miss Houdini, who in turn produced Arkansas Derby winner Papa Clem.