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Pure Magic in Memsie Stakes

Mark Smith - Saturday September 2

A star in his native Western Australia, Vega Magic is making a believer of even the most cynical easterner with another flawless performance when downing another former WA star Black Heart Bart in Saturday's $1million Group I New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.

Ridden by Craig Williams, Vega Magic led at every call to defeat Black Heart Bart by one and three-quarter lengths with the Japanese-bred Tosen Stardom (JPN) a short-half-head back in third.  (photo Grant Courtney)

The team at Lindsay Park will have some thinking to do as to whether Newmarket Handicap winner Redkirk Warrior or Vega Magic will take a slot in the $10million Everest at Randwick on October 14.


"There's $10 million up there so he would be a logical one for the Rupert Clarke (Stakes) or The Everest and I'm thinking The Everest," David Hayes said.

"It's more to do with (owner) Wally Daly and what they want to do and what deal can be struck. There are a lot of people very keen on him if the owners on our side are prepared to do it.

"He'd be a lovely fresh horse up there. He's got six weeks to it and he would come out with horns on I think."

Bred by his owners, brothers Wally and George Daly, Vega Magic advances his record to 12 wins, 2 seconds and 1 third from 17 starts with earnings of $2,034,050

The brother's sent their Magic Albert mare Admirable to Lope De Vega (IRE) in all four seasons he stood at Patinack.

Vegas Magic is the first of those foals. A winner herself over 1000 metres at Ascot, Admirable won or placed in five of her seven starts.

Her granddam, Starlight Express, is a sister to Century Miss, the 1979 Group 1 Golden Slipper heroine who is the granddam of Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint winner Natural Blitz.

After missing to Hallowed Crown in 2015, Admirable was covered by Shooting To Win last spring.

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