The arrival of 2026's foal crop by this year's first-crop sires got a fast start with Gainesway's Muth siring his first reported foal Jan. 1 at Gainesway.
The Gainesway-bred filly is out of the winning Tapit mare Marlinspike, who also was bred and raced by Gainesway. The new foal is a half sister to multiple stakes winner Bullet (War Front ). Marlinspike is out of the four-time grade 1 winner and 2000 champion 3-year-old filly Surfside (Seattle Slew), who is a daughter of 1994 champion 2-year-old filly Flanders.
Muth, a 5-year-old son of Good Magic , topped the 2023 Ocala Breeders' Sales March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale after agent Donato Lanni went to $2 million for the colt offered by Top Line Sales. He won grade 1 stakes at 2 and 3 for Zedan Racing Stables and trainer Bob Baffert, taking the American Pharoah Stakes (G1) at 2 before finishing as runner-up in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1). At 3, he won the San Vicente Stakes (G2) before capturing the Arkansas Derby (G1). Muth retired with a 5-2-0 record from nine starts and earned $1,589,600.
Good Magic is a son of elite sire Curlin , who has sired two graded stakes winners so far out of Tapit daughters, including 2023 Horse of the Year and champion older dirt male Cody's Wish and grade 2 winner Tenfold, who was third in the 2018 Preakness Stakes (G1).
Muth stands at Gainesway for $30,000.
