Juvenile champion Good Magic (Curlin ) was precocious on the track in the fall of 2017, and his first crop of foals has been fast-tracked in this year's weanling market. Through the first three sessions of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, five of eight foals have sold for an average of $140,000, with one reaching $360,000. His last flight of foals will be offered during the fifth session Nov. 13.
Last, but not least, is Hip 1707, a bay filly out of group 1-producing Block offered by Conor Doyle and Neal Clarke's Bedouin Bloodstock. They raised the filly for breeder SF Bloodstock.
She's a half sister to Peruvian group 1 winner Lideris (by Mizzen Mast) and Vibrance (Violence ), who ran second in the 2018 Chandelier Stakes (G1) and third in the Tito's Handmade Vodka Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Donna and Jim Daniell and trainer Michael McCarthy.
"We just started showing, so it's a little tricky, but she's a nice filly with a good walk, good balance, and a great family," Clarke said from Barn 6. "She's doing very well, I'd say. She is hitting a lot of people's lists.
"We've had the foal on the farm, and she's just a very nice, easygoing kind of horse. Athletic and looks like her mother."
Bedouin sold the $360,000 Good Magic—Inlovewithlove weanling colt during the third session, making him the seventh-highest price of the day and the sixth-highest weanling.
"We're bullish on Good Magic at the moment," Clarke admitted. "The one we sold for $360,000 was an absolutely beautiful colt, and we also RNA'd a beautiful filly (out of Angelo's Ashes for $170,000).
A bonus with the Block filly is that she was foaled in New York, making her eligible for state-bred incentives.
"SF will send some of their first-crop horses to become New York-breds," Clarke said, noting they are foaled at Dan Hayden's Sugar Maple Farm near Poughquag.
As for the November market, Bedouin Bloodstock has sold 14 of 21 offerings for $7,405,000.
"We've been selling pretty well. … We have some highlights and we have some disappointments, but I would say overall the market is a little thin," Clarke admitted. "But at the same time, as the cliché goes, if you have what they want, you will sell it well.
"The weanling market is very selective. The problems that are besetting the country and the economy at the moment will more than likely still be there next year, so I think people are taking a very cautious approach."
