The Gainesway-bred filly is out of the winning category Carpet mare Marlinspike, who was also bred and raced by Gainesway. The new foal is a half-sister to the winner of multiple stakes Ball (War front ). Marlinspike is out of the four-time Grade 1 winner and 2000 champion 3-year-old filly Surfside (Seattle Slew), 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 Class 1 stakes at 2 and 3 for Zedan Racing Stables and trainer Bob Baffert, won the American Pharoah Stakes (G1) at 2 before finishing second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1). At age 3, he won the San Vicente Stakes (G2) before capturing the Arkansas Derby (G1). Muth retired with a record of 5-2-0 from nine starts and earned $1,589,600.
Good Magic is a son of an elite sire Curl who has produced two graduated stakes winners to date from Tapit daughters, including 2023 Horse of the Year and champion older dirt male Cody’s wish and winner of class 2 Tenfold who finished third in the 2018 Preakness Stakes (G1).
Muth is listed at Gainesway for $30,000.
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