Puca 24

Sire:  GOOD MAGIC

Dam:  PUCA

Foaled: 04/04/2024

Chestnut colt with blaze

Full brother to: 

2023 KENTUCKY DERBY WINNER, MAGE

2024 BELMONT WINNER, DORNOCH

Half-sibling to: 

2025 KENTUCKY DERBY 3RD, BAEZA

Will be trained by Chad Brown

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Resolute Racing purchased dam Puca–herself a 

stakes winner and Grade 2-placed runner who also 

received prestigious ‘TDN Rising Star’ honors–for 

a sale-topping $2.9 million at the 2023 Keeneland 

November sale while carrying this Good Magic colt. 

The daughter of dual Classic winner Big Brown was 

already a Derby winner-producing mare at that point, 

but she’d earn a second jewel towards her own Triple 

Crown the following June when Dornoch dug in gamely 

to defeat a strong field in the “Test of the Champion.” 

She was a shoe-in for that year’s KTOB Broodmare 

of the Year award, and that was after just her first three 

foals–her first foal, the filly Gunning (Gun Runner), 

was also multiple stakes-placed.  

Puca is half to Finnegans Wake, who scored his own 

Derby Day glory when taking the 2015 G1 Woodford 

Reserve Turf Classic. 

Last April, Puca foaled her latest potential star in this 

strapping now-yearling colt. He has continued to 

blossom in the past year or so, and is certainly one 

of the most promising and well-credentialed 

Thoroughbred yearlings on the planet. A beautiful 

chestnut with exceptional balance and proportion, 

he possesses a powerful forearm and hip and an 

athletic, free-moving walk. 

He will go into pre-training later this year, with the 

plan to eventually turn him over to five-time Eclipse 

Award-winning conditioner and future Hall of Famer 

Chad Brown. The trainer of last year’s champion 3YO 

male, G1 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and near 

Kentucky Derby-misser Sierra Leone, also guided 

Puca 24’s standout sire Good Magic. 

     A seven-figure son of Curlin, Good Magic was a 

champion juvenile himself and Derby runner-up, and 

has emerged as one of the most successful sires–

particularly of two-turn dirt horses–in America. In 

addition to the two superstar colts mentioned above,

 Good Magic has sired three other G1- winning 

males routing on the dirt: last year’s G1 Pacific 

Classic hero and recent G1 Dubai World Cup 

runner-up Mixto; sale-topping G1 American 

Pharoah and G1 Arkansas Derby scorer Muth; 

and the Chad Brown-trained Blazing Sevens, 

winner of the prestigious G1 Champagne 

Stakes in 2022. 

     With four of those five currently standing at 

stud in Kentucky, there are not many–if any–

sire lines that figure to have a more significant 

impact on the breed in the coming years. 

     Opportunities to get involved in a horse of 

this caliber do not come around every day!