Our Owner of the Month award winner for October is Kate Dansie, part owner of Magic Phantom who won three in a row during October – Kate wrote this for SAROA:
My introduction to racing started in 2004 with Blevics Jewel and Blevics Pride. (Both as the names suggest by Blevic and both multiple winners)
With my husband Ian Brown we have had many horses since with good success.
We enjoyed our time breeding having two successful foals though we lost both mares within two weeks of each other which was very sad.
Casper’s Ghost won his first two Metro races here and after an offer we could not refuse he was sold and raced in Hong Kong doing very well winning twice.
We had been lucky previously to have horses that have won two races in a row though never three.
During October 22 our 6-year-old Magic Phantom had three runs winning all three taking his record to 9 wins, 1 second and 8 Thirds.
By Magic Albert he was purchased at the Adelaide Sales for $25,000 in 2018 and has since been trained by Jon O’Connor.
Jon’s new apprentice from Hong Kong, Britney Wong rode Magic Phantom in his past three wins.
Magic Phantom’s last win was a milestone for us bringing up our 100th winner.
The day was held on Gawler Cup Day and with our win there previously with Boristar in 2014 winning the Cup it was wonderful to win the sprint race with Magic Phantom on the 21st October 22.
As Kate mentions Magic Phantom is by Magic Albert, he is out of the Lonhro mare Matignon and has won almost $200,000. The dam herself was more than handy as a racehorse winning three and earning over $110,000. Matignon’s only other named progeny is Fleet Dreams (by Nostradamus) who is also still racing and has so far won five and $64,000
Magic Phantom’s grand dam is Palais (by Palace Music) who won over $120,000, other prominent progeny of the grand dam include Listowel (by Strategic) who is the dam of 8 time winner Sir Ottavio (by Octagonal).
Congratulations to Kate and Ian, we look forward to further successes for Magic Phantom and their other horses.