The arrival of 2026’s foal crop by this 12 months’s first-crop sires received a quick begin with Gainesway’s Muth siring his first reported foal Jan. 1 at Gainesway.
The Gainesway-bred filly is out of the successful Tapit mare Marlinspike, who additionally was bred and raced by Gainesway. The brand new foal is a half sister to a number of stakes winner Bullet (Warfare Entrance ). Marlinspike is out of the four-time grade 1 winner and 2000 champion 3-year-old filly Surfside (Seattle Slew), who’s a daughter of 1994 champion 2-year-old filly Flanders.
Muth, a 5-year-old son of Good Magic , topped the 2023 Ocala Breeders’ Gross sales March 2-Yr-Olds in Coaching Sale after agent Donato Lanni went to $2 million for the colt provided by High Line Gross sales. He received grade 1 stakes at 2 and three for Zedan Racing Stables and coach Bob Baffert, taking the American Pharoah Stakes (G1) at 2 earlier than ending as runner-up within the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1). At 3, he received the San Vicente Stakes (G2) earlier than capturing the Arkansas Derby (G1). Muth retired with a 5-2-0 document from 9 begins and earned $1,589,600.
Good Magic is a son of elite sire Curlin , who has sired two graded stakes winners thus far out of Tapit daughters, together with 2023 Horse of the Yr and champion older filth male Cody’s Want and grade 2 winner Tenfold , who was third within the 2018 Preakness Stakes (G1).
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