Magical Romance

Magical Romance
Sire	Barathea
Grandsire	Sadler's Wells
Dam	Shouk
Damsire	Shirley Heights
Sex	Mare
Foaled	5 February 2002
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Quay Bloodstock & Samac Ltd
Owner	Con Wilson
Trainer	Brian Meehan
Record	9: 3-0-0
Earnings	£127,760
Major wins
Cheveley Park Stakes (2004)

Magical Romance (foaled 5 February 2002) is an Irish-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a racing career which lasted from June 2004 until September 2005 she won three of her nine races. As a two-year-old in 2004 she won two minor races but then recorded a 40/1 upset victory in Group One Cheveley Park Stakes. She failed to win or place in four starts in 2005 and was retired from racing at the end of the year. In 2006 she was bought for 4.6 million guineas, a world record price for a broodmare sold at auction.

Magical Romance is a bay mare with a white star and snip and four white socks bred in Ireland by Quay Bloodstock & Samac Ltd. She was sired by Barathea, a specialist miler who was named European Horse of the Year in 1994, a year in which he won the Breeders' Cup Mile. He became a successful stallion, siring the winners of over seven hundred races, including Tobougg, Overturn and Tante Rose (Haydock Sprint Cup) Her dam Shouk, a daughter of Shirley Heights, won one minor race at Haydock Park in 1997. but was a successful broodmare: after foaling Magical Romance she went on to produce the Epsom Oaks winner Alexandrova.

In October 2003, the yearling filly was consigned to the Tattersalls sale and was bought for 125,000 guineas by the bloodstock agent McKeever St Lawrence. The filly entered the ownership of Con Wilson and was sent into training with Brian Meehan.

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