Summerhill have a plum sire in Willow Magic, the first Gr1 winning son of Dubawi to stand at stud in South Africa and getting off to a start at a farm that held the National Breeders Title for 9 consecutive years, 10 in total.

Stamping his yearlings with this handsome looks, good bone and muscular physique, Willow Magic has his first crop on offer in 2019.

Willow Magic (AUS), a glowing chestnut with flashy white legs and plenty of power in his hindquarters, is throwing outstanding types with strength and quality – sales inspectors have commented on the quality of his stock.

Trained by Sean Tarry in South Africa, the gutsy chestnut who was no stranger to Gr1 success, won the  Gr1 SA Nursery and Gr2 Dingaans. He went on to further place in many of the countries leading Gr1 races including seconds in the Gr1 Gold Challenge and Gr1 Gold Medallion, third in the Gr1 Post Merchants and Gr1 Premiers Champions Stakes. He also placed in two Gr3’s.

The only British stallion to ever sire 100 Group winners in no time at all. Dubawi is the sire of 38 G1 winners and counting, with 16% Stakes winners and 10% Group winners, this makes him one of the world’s greatest stallions.

Willow Magic is out of a 3-time winner La Willow, by Tierce.

Tierce is described as being a great galloper and one of the fastest in Australia during his time. He is the sire of Gr1 winner Encounter – and his race record reads 16 starts, 11 wins with three places. He won three Gr1 races including the AJC Sires Produce, the Golden Slipper, the Moet & Chandon Champagne Stakes, and won three Gr2’s and a Gr3. He further placed two Group races and earned over $2,2250 000 in stakes in the process.

Summerhill have the following Willow Magic yearlings from leading families headed to the National Yearling Sale, taking place 24, 25 and 26 April:

Darley’s outstanding stallion, Dubawi, second only to Galileo as Europe’s premier sire, has enjoyed yet another magnificent season in 2017, says Sarah Whitelaw for Sporting Post.

Dubawi is the sire of Summerhill’s handsome chestnut stallion, the only Gr1 winning horse at stud in the Southern Hemisphere – the Sean Tarry-trained Willow Magic. Willow Magic’s first foals have been arriving and they are stamped with his chestnut coat and white socks, but most impressively they are of a big size, including maiden mares.

The only Gr1 winner sired by ill-fated champion, Dubai Millennium, Dubawi enjoyed a notable Gr1 double this weekend, firstly with his son, Mubtaahij, picking up his maiden Gr1 victory when landing the Gr1 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday. Formerly with Mike de Kock, the now Bob Baffert domiciled Mubtaahij (a half-brother to local broodmare, Saint Mary) could give Dubawi a first Breeders’ Cup win when he lines up in the Breeders’ Cup Classic in November.

Dubawi also made it back to back wins in the Gr1 Prix Marcel Boussac, when daughter, Wild Illusion, won on Sunday. The race went to Dubawi’s daughter, Wuheida, 12 months ago. Wild Illusion had won easily first time out, before finishing third at her only previous outing, in the Gr3 Prix d’Aumale.

It is not the first French Gr1 won by Dubawi fillies in recent times, with his daughters, Left Hand and Bateel, lifting the 2016 and 2017 Prix Vermeille and Sobetsu landing the 2017 Prix Saint Alary. Dubawi’s success was carried further afield than Europe this weekend, with granddaughter, Bonneval, winning Australia’s Gr1 Underwood Stakes. Bonneval is a daughter of Dubawi’s classic winning son, Makfi.

Dubawi has enjoyed another remarkable year in 2017, with the triple Gr1 winner  represented by seven individual Gr1 winners this year.

Dubawi daughters filled the first three placings in the recent Gr1 Prix Vermeille. Also this year, Dubawi has been represented by top flight winners in three different countries – North America, France and Ireland, with his progeny winning four Gr1 features in France in 2017 thus far. Another son, Frontiersman

The grandson of Seeking The Gold has also enjoyed plenty of success with his 2yos this year, with Wild Illusion joining Anna Nerium (Gr3 Dick Poole Stakes) and Glorious Journey (Gr3 Prix la Rochette), as group winning juveniles. His other promising 2yo winners this year include the regally bred pair, Emaraaty and Ghaiyyath.

One of the gaps on Dubawi’s impressive resume (he has more than 200 stakes horses to his name, including more than 30 Gr1 winners, and his runners have banked in excess of $150 000 000) are the English classics, as, with the exception of the 2000 Guineas – won by sons Makfi and Night Of Thunder – Dubawi is yet to strike a blow in England’s premier 3yo contests.

Despite his 3yo’s having yet to land a 2400m English classic, Dubawi’s older runners have enjoyed plenty of success over a mile and a half, having won such Gr1 2400m contests as the King George, Coronation Cup, Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, Prix Vermeille and Canadian International.

The sire has proven particularly effective when mated to mares from the Sadler’s Wells male line. Star performers bred on the Dubawi/Sadler’s Wells line cross include the Gr1 winners Night Of Thunder, Journey, Monterosso, Arabian Queen, Hunter’s Light, Left Hand and Wuheida. Sadler’s Wells is also found in the pedigree of Dubawi’s Prix du Jockey Club winning son, New Bay, as well as the sire’s Hong Kong Cup winning sire son, Akeed Mofeed, and 2017 Prix Saint-Alary heroine, Sobetsu.

Both Left Hand and Wuheida are out of mares by Singspiel, whose sire, In The Wings (Sadler’s Wells), is from the same family as Dubawi.

Inbreeding to Shirley Heights, whose son, Deploy, is damsire of Dubawi, has also proved very successful for Dubawi.

This pattern has produced four time Gr1 winner, Al Kazeem, the above mentioned Left Hand and Wuheida, Gr1 Premio Roma/Gr1 Jebel Hatta hero Hunter’s Light, Sobetsu, Gr1 British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes victress, Journey, and Arabian Queen, who downed champion Golden Horn in the 2015 Gr1 Juddmonte International. Arabian Queen has a very interesting pedigree in her own right, as she is a direct descendant of Etoile de France, the ancestress of Dubawi himself.

Dubawi is well and truly established as the greatest descendant of Mr Prospector in Europe and he and his descendants look well set to continue to act as a foil for the abundance of Northern Dancer line mares the world over.

Willow Magic stands at Summerhill Stud this season for a fee of R12 000.

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The sire of Summerhill’s new stallion prospect, Gr1 winner Willow Magic, has made news at Goffs Orby Sale when a Dubawi bay colt sold for €1.4 Million off the Wildenstein Stables Ltd Dispersal as Lot 472.

John Ferguson purchased the Dubawi colt out of Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Beauty Parlour, by Japanese super sire Deep Impact in turn out of a Giant’s Causeway mare. New Zealand champion Might And Power can be found under the third dam. The French-bred colt is named Being There.

Gr1 SA Nursery winner Willow Magic (AUS), the only son of super sire Dubawi to stand at stud in South Africa stands his first season at Summerhill Stud. The imposing chestnut stallion is out of La Willow by Tierce.

Willow Magic was trained by Sean Tarry and had four career wins including the Gr2 Dingaans. Amongst his 10 places was a close second to Legislate in the Gr1 Rising Sun Gold Challenge, second to Captain Of All in the Gr1 Gold Medallion over 1200m and third in the Gr2 Post Merchants to Daring Dave.

Dubawi is the sire of 24 Gr1 winners to date and the fastest to ever sire 50 Group winners then any other stallion at this stage of his career, with 11 alone in 2015. Amongst his list of Group winners is Mike De Kock’s overseas charge, Mubtaahij.

Willow Magic stands for R20 000 in his first season at stud.

– extract paulickreport.com