Coolmore Stud’s young sire Magna Grecia, who shares his outstanding sire Invincible Spirit with Mauritzfontein’s exciting stallion Digital Age, had his first stakes winner on the board with the Listed Prix Yacowlef (1000m) won by speedy colt Myconian.
Myconian was the first winner for Magna Grecia when he scored at Saint Cloud in April on debut and has since been campaigning in the UK where he finished most recently sixth at Royal Ascot in the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes.
The Amy Murphy trained colt was well seasoned for this assignment and held off a strong challenge from Wootton Bassett filly Salva Mea to win by a head.

Magna Grecia has had yearlings sell for up to $375,000 in Australia this year and was at Coolmore Australia last spring as was his half-brother St Mark’s Basilica, who was well received in his first season covering 159 mares. He won three of six starts including the 2019 G1 Qipco 2000 Guineas.Magna Grecia was also a top-class 2YO, winning on debut over 7 furlongs at Naas by 3½ lengths and landing the G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy at Doncaster from the subsequent Gr.1-winning milers Phoenix of Spain and Circus Maximus. In between those two wins he was a neck second to subsequent French 2,000 Guineas winner Persian King in Newmarket’s Autumn Stakes-Gr.3.

At 340,000gns Magna Grecia is Invincible Spirit’s highest-priced colt foal while Timeform described him as “medium-sized, a taking sort physically, robust and well made, a bruiser of a colt”.

In the 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1 at Newmarket he won very impressively by 2½ lengths from Gr.1 winners King of Change, Ten Sovereigns, Advertise and Royal Marine, as well as Epsom Derby runner-up Madhmoon.