A look at the highest-rating progeny of Magnus, who died this week. .
The Australian breeding industry lost a valued servant this week when Magnus died at the age of 21 after a 15-season breeding career that, to date, has produced 525 winners and more than $82 million in stakes.
Four Group 1 winners were among them and it is no surprise that one of them put up the highest Timeform rating recorded by a horse by the son of Flying Spur.
Magnus' top progeny by Timeform rating
121 – MALAGUERRA: Posted his peak in the second of his two Group 1 wins, the 2016 VRC Sprint Classic, having run 120 to win the BTC Cup earlier that year. Also ran 121 when he defeated Black Heart Bart in the G2 Australia Stakes in 2017.
119 – SIGHT SUCCESS: A seven-year-old whose only public appearance in Australia was a dominant Murray Bridge trial win in 2019, he has won eight of 27 in Hong Kong but has recorded his peak rating when placed in Group 1 races. His first 119 rating came when second to Wellington in last year's Hong Kong Sprint , while he also went 119 when third in this year's Centenary Sprint Cup.
117 – STREETS OF AVALON: Magnus' other dual Group 1 winner who ran his peak figure in both of those two wins – the 2020 Futurity Stakes and 2021 Orr Stakes – while he also ran to that mark when third in last year's $5m All-Star Mile and second in the Group 3 Victoria Handicap.
Streets Of Avalon is one of five sons of Magnus to run to 117, the others being FRONT PAGE, JUST FOLK, KEMALPASSA and KING MAGNUS.
116 – HALVORSEN: A two-time Standish Handicap winner, rating 109 and 111 in those wins, his peak performance came when he beat home all-bar September Run in the William Reid Stakes.
113 – GREAT SHOT: Most of Magnus' best results as a sire were achieved in Victoria, but he also had good success in Western Australia, where Great Shot was one of his best performers. He ran a Timeform figure of 113 on five separate occasions, including his win in the Railway Stakes (1600m).
112 – MAGNIFISIO: Magnus' fourth Group 1 winner was also trained out of WA and logged her peak figure when winning the Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes, although the number appears better than it looks on paper taking into the four-pound penalty for mares' owing to their 2kg weight allowance.
Two others by Magnus ran to 112; MAHAMADEIS and MALIBU STYLE.
