LIGHTNING MAGNUS FILLY

In a fitting end to 2012-13, Magnus has snared one of the final black type races of the season with Prettyhappyaboutit producing a command performance in the Lightning Stakes at Morphettville.

Sitting just behind the leader, Prettyhappyaboutit forged to the lead about 300m from home and soon put the issue beyond doubt, racing away to score comfortably.

Only lightly raced, this is a very good filly. Trained by Robbie Griffiths, she won easily at her first two outings in January, before peeling off four city placings prior to the Lightning.

Bred by Eliza Park, Prettyhappyaboutit is out of the Peaks And Valleys mare, Call Me Pretty, and is linebred to Mr Prospector through a daughter and son. She is also a half sister to stakes winner and Group One placed Born To Rock and hails from the family of Champion Sire, Storm Bird.

As for Magnus … what a season! Sitting second on the Australian Second Season Sires’ chart by winners, 2013 is the year he has truly come of age. Platinum Kingdom, a stakes winner at two and three in New Zealand, crossed the Tasman in the autumn and took out the South Pacific-LR during the Sydney carnival before capturing Group success in Brisbane the following month.

Missy Cummings, won her first three races, culminating in the James Carr-LR at Randwick, just a week after Platinum Kingdom grabbed black type at headquarters.

Then there’s the highly rated Perth sprinter, Magnifisio – winning all three starts at Belmont this time in – and who, according to Jim Taylor, has a very promising future.

And it might pay to ‘black book’ the brilliant debutant, I’m In Charge, who lived right up to his name with a resounding performance at Geelong on Friday.

It’s certainly shaping as a big spring for Magnus (below) – both in the breeding barn and for his runners!

Click here to watch Prettyhappyaboutit’s Lightning victory.