Al’s Magic Miss continued the great run being enjoyed this season by her sire Magic Albert, jumping brilliantly and leading throughout to win on debut at Randwick on Wednesday.
The David Payne trained filly was well fancied on the strength of a smart trial win before Christmas and ran up to the wraps with an impressive display.
Swiftly away for Corey Brown, Al’s Magic Miss shot straight through to lead and after finding the fence travelled smoothly around the turn into the straight until challenged by another first starter in Homedge, who actually headed the eventual winner.
Despite dropping his whip, Brown was able to urge Al’s Magic Miss to the line and she came again strongly to forge clear and win the 1000 metre dash by half a length.
“I went to change the whip over from one hand to the other and dropped it, then it bounced off the other horse’s neck and I caught it… but then dropped it again,” Brown revealed.
“She’s a racy sort of filly and wanted to go a little bit hard in the early stages, but in the end she won as she liked.”
Bred and offered for sale by Yarraman Park, Al’s Magic Miss was a $100,000 purchase from the 2010 Magic Millions Yearling Sale and is a half-sister to stakes-placed Carlton Forward from stakes-placed Bianconi (USA) mare Carlton Ace, a half-sister to juvenile stakes-winner Carton Spirit.
Al’s Magic Miss is the 69th winner this season for Magic Albert from 158 runners giving him the outstanding seasonal strike rate of 43% winner to runner.
Standing at a fee of $13,750, Magic Albert produces winners and results in the sale ring, his progeny at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale this year averaging $102,500.
