WHEN Robson Aguiar picked up a Magician colt for 14,000 guineas at last year’s Tattersalls Ascot Sale, he had a unique insight that it’s unlikely anyone at any sale could have had.

That was that he’d ridden the colt’s sire regularly as a two-year-old during his time as a work rider in Ballydoyle. Racing is an opportunistic industry but it’s unlikely too many people go from riding work on subsequent stallions to then pinhooking their progeny later on, but that’s the link the Brazilian has crafted for himself.