Magician (horse)

Magician
Racing colourss of Michael Tabor
Sire	Galileo
Grandsire	Sadler's Wells
Dam	Absolutelyfabulous
Damsire	Mozart
Sex	Colt
Foaled	24 April 2010
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Absolutelyfabulous Syndicate
Owner	Mrs John Magnier Michael Tabor Derrick Smith
Trainer	Aidan O'Brien
Record	14: 5-4-0
Earnings	£1,579,292
Major wins
Dee Stakes (2013) Irish 2000 Guineas (2013) Breeders' Cup Turf (2013) Mooresbridge Stakes (2014)
Awards
Cartier Champion Three-year-old Colt (2013)

Magician (foaled 24 April 2010) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. After showing unremarkable form as a two-year-old in 2012, he established himself as a top-class performer in May 2013 with wins in the Dee Stakes and the Irish 2000 Guineas. After a long break, he returned in November to win the Breeders' Cup Turf and a month later was voted Cartier Champion Three-year-old Colt.

Magician is a bay colt with a white star bred in Ireland by the Absolutelyfabulous Syndicate, an organisation associated with the Coolmore Stud. He was sired by Galileo the winner of the 2001 Derby who went on to become an outstanding breeding stallion, winning the title of champion sire on four occasions. Galileo's other progeny include Rip Van Winkle, Nathaniel, Cape Blanco, New Approach and Frankel. Magician's dam, Absolutelyfabulous was a successful sprinter who won the Listed Cork Stakes and finished second in the Ballyogan Stakes. Absolutelyfabulous is a great-granddaughter of Luv Luvin', an American broodmare whose other descendants include Henrythenavigator and the Irish 2000 Guineas winner Saffron Walden.

Magician was trained throughout his racing career by Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle.

Magician began his racing career in a seven furlong maiden race at Leopardstown Racecourse on 8 September. Ridden by Seamie Heffernan he started at odds of 10/1 and finished ninth of the sixteen runners behind Mooqtar. Nineteen days later he ran in a similar event at Dundalk and was ridden by his trainer's son Joseph O'Brien to finish second, half a length behind the Dermot Weld-trained favourite Mouteab. Joseph O'Brien rode the colt again when he started 4/5 favourite for a maiden race at the Curragh on 14 October. Racing over a mile on heavy ground, Magician took the lead inside the final quarter mile and drew clear of his opponents in the closing stages to win by six lengths from Bunairgead. Two weeks later, Magician was moved up in class to contest the Group Three Killavullan Stakes over seven furlongs at Leopardstown. Seamie Heffernan sent the colt into an early lead, but after being overtaken, and then badly hampered in the straight, Magician was eased down to finish last of the seven runners behind Big Break.