Good Magic Gains Automatic Berth into Breeders’ Cup Classic

By Jim Gluckson —-

GOOD MAGIC GAINS AUTOMATIC BERTH INTO BREEDERS’ CUP CLASSIC FOLLOWING DOMINANT WIN IN HASKELL INVITATIONAL AT MONMOUTH PARK

OCEANPORT, N.J. (July 29, 2018) – e Five Racing Thoroughbreds and Stonestreet Stables’ Good Magic won last year’s Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) and today punched his ticket back to the Breeders’ Cup with a dominant three-length win over Bravazo in the 1 1/8-mile, $1 million Haskell Invitational (G1) for 3-year-olds at Monmouth Park.

Ridden by Jose Ortiz, Good Magic earned an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) through the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series.

The Breeders’ Cup Challenge is an international series of 85 stakes races whose winners receive automatic starting positions and fees paid into a corresponding race of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, which will be held at Churchill Downs on Nov. 2-3.

Good Magic, trained by Chad Brown, becomes the third horse to qualify for the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic this year. Kazumasa Yamada’s 6-year-old gelding Nonkono Yume (JPN) was the first to qualify, winning the one-mile February Stakes (G1) at Tokyo Racecourse on Feb. 18, and was followed by Reddam Racing’s 4-year-old Pavel, who won the Stephen Foster Handicap (G1) at Churchill Downs on June 16.

As a part of the benefits of the Challenge series, the Breeders’ Cup will pay the pre-entry and entry fees for Good Magic to start in the Classic. Breeders’ Cup also is providing a $10,000 travel allowance for all horses based outside of Kentucky to compete in this year’s Championships.

A chestnut son of 2007 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Curlin, Good Magic, last year’s Eclipse Award-winning 2-year-old Male, was making his first start since finishing fourth in the Preakness Stakes (G1) on May 19. Prior to that, he was second to Justify in the Kentucky Derby. Good Magic began the year with a third-place finish in the Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) at Gulfstream Park and won the Blue Grass Stakes (G2) at Keeneland.

Brown indicated after the race that Good Magic would start next in the 1 ¼-mile Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga on Aug. 25.

Good Magic covered the 1 1/8 miles in 1:50.01 over a fast track. Good Magic was bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings.

About Breeders’ Cup
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