| Outstanding mare Magic Time notched a second career Group One success this afternoon when she won the $1.5 million All Aged Stakes (1400m) at Randwick. |
| The Victorian visitor proved too strong in a slugging finish, overcoming a crack field and a rain soaked track to win by a long neck. “She’s been a beauty,” winning trainer Grahame Begg said. “Each run has just brought her on.” “This was our main goal, getting to the All Aged Stakes. Her Newmarket run was good. Then in the TJ Smith, she just drew down on the inside but it brought her on and she was spot-on today.” “Her 1400 metre record is outstanding. She’s got a great will to win. She’s had a great prep.” “The staff have looked after her very well. I’ve got to thank (owners) Mr (John) Muir and Trish Muir. And Michael Dee, what a great ride.” Begg was quietly confident the mare would acquit herself well on the very wet track. “I said to Mick before the race, just keep her comfortable. Get her in a good rhythm and help her as much as possible. It was going to be very trying conditions but she’s got a great will to win. It’s very exciting.” “We were thinking about going to Brisbane but we’ll just have to reassess everything. She’s a great mare. She’s got an unbelievable record for such a lightly raced horse and she never fails to deliver.” Winning rider Michael Dee was not surprisingly all smiles after unsaddling and was pretty happy with his star mount during the race. “It worked out well,” Dee noted after the win. “She jumped well.” “We were able to get cover, albeit being wide, and then I was happy because we could just work into it.” “I was pretty confident a long way out but with the ground how it is now, I wasn’t sure at the 100 metre mark. But she dug deep. It was a super effort.” “She’s a dream to ride. She does everything you ask of her. She’s certainly a race day horse. In trackwork she’s pretty unassuming and she doesn’t usually work that well in trackwork. But come race day, she really switches on.” It was a relief for Dee having finally captured a Sydney feature at the end of their carnival. “I was starting to think I was getting a little bit sick of flying up here every Saturday, but this certainly tops it off. It’s the one race I thought we could win a long way out.” “After she ran first-up up the straight we certainly had this race picked for her and I always thought she was going to be peaking at the right time,” Dee summed up. Magic Time, a Milburn Creek bred graduate of the 2021 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, is the first multiple Group One winner for her sire, I Am Invincible’s William Reid Stakes winning son Hellbent. She was the first foal produced by the multiple stakes winning Nicconi mare Time Awaits – who was purchased for Milburn Creek by Damon Gabbedy’s Belmont Bloodstock Agency for $300,000 at the 2018 National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast. Presented by Edinburgh Park, Time Awaits was a maiden mare at the sale and retired after a career that netted three juvenile wins including a Group Three SAJC Sires’ Produce Stakes and Listed Cinderella Stakes. She is from a city placed Danzero daughter of WA Oaks winner Mystic Chantry – a filly that good she was second in a Group One WA Derby. Winner: Magic Time Breeding: Hellbent-Time Awaits (Nicconi) Race: ATC All Aged Stakes G1 (1400m) Passed for: $110,000 Sale: 2021 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale Earnings: $2,145,775 Breeder: Muir Woodside Pty Ltd Vendor: Milburn Creek Reserve: $150,000 Owners: Milburn Creek Thoroughbred Stud (Mgr: J L Muir) Trainer: Grahame Begg (Cranbourne) |
