from Tara Hills Stud Farm

Port Perry, ON — Tara Hills Stud Farm has announced that sophomore trotting colt Daylon Magician will stand at stud starting with the 2012 breeding season.

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Daylon Magician will stand stud in 2012 at Tara Hills Stud Farm.

Daylon Magician has started 17 times this season with 11 wins, two seconds and three thirds for $1,082,455 in earnings. Lifetime he shows earnings of $1,304,461.

As a 2-year-old he was a successful Ontario Sires Stakes Gold competitor, concluding the year with an impressive come from behind victory in the C$300,000 Super final in 1:55.3s.

This season his victories include seven OSS Gold events, the Canadian Breeders Championship (in a career best of 1:52.3), the Goodtimes consolation and the coveted C$1 million Canadian Trotting Classic against the best of his class in North America, including the Hambletonian winner, Broad Bahn. He’s established several track records, Canadian and OSS records and tied the world record of 1:54.2 for 3-year-old trotters on a half-mile track earlier this summer.

Bred, trained and owned throughout his career by Dave and Mary Lemon of Komoka, Ontario, Daylon Magician is the richest son of his sire, Kadabra, whom he’ll stand alongside at Tara Hills Stud. He is from Daylon Marvel, a stakes winning daughter of Super Pleasure who earned $128,293 in her career and has also produced the $310,162 winner Daylon Mystique. Daylon Magician is from the immediate family of former OSS star Marathon Lady.