Magical | |
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Sire | Galileo |
Grandsire | Sadler's Wells |
Dam | Halfway to Heaven |
Damsire | Pivotal |
Sex | Filly |
Foaled | 18 May 2015[1] |
Country | Ireland |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Orpendale, Chelston & Wynatt |
Owner | Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith |
Trainer | Aidan O'Brien |
Record | 28: 12-8-2 |
Earnings | £4,875,498 |
Major wins | |
Debutante Stakes (2017) Kilboy Estate Stakes (2018) British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes (2018) Alleged Stakes (2019) Mooresbridge Stakes (2019) Tattersalls Gold Cup (2019, 2020) Irish Champion Stakes (2019, 2020) Champion Stakes (2019) Pretty Polly Stakes (2020) |
Magical (foaled 18 May 2015) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who excelled over middle distances and was rated in the top twenty racehorses in the world in 2018 and 2019. She showed considerable ability as a juvenile in 2017, winning the Debutante Stakes and finishing second in the Moyglare Stud Stakes as well as running fourth in both the Prix Marcel Boussac and the Fillies' Mile. In the following year she won the Kilboy Estate Stakes but did not produce her best form until autumn when she took the British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes and was narrowly beaten in the Breeders' Cup Turf. In 2019 she won the Alleged Stakes, Mooresbridge Stakes, Tattersalls Gold Cup, Irish Champion Stakes and Champion Stakes as well as finishing second in the Prince of Wales's Stakes, Eclipse Stakes and Yorkshire Oaks. As a five-year-old she was as good as ever, winning the Pretty Polly Stakes and recording repeat victories in the Tattersalls Gold Cup and the Irish Champion Stakes as well as being placed in the International Stakes, Champion Stakes, Breeders' Cup Turf and Hong Kong Cup.