Written Tycoon Reaches New Heights with $165,000 Fee, Tagaloa to Stand
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HTBA MAY YEARLING SALE NEWS STANDOUT $145,000 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION COLT BOUND FOR SINGAPORE Tuesday, May 4, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here KIWI CHRONICLES BY LLOYD JACKSON - PAGE 17 Kingstar lands big pinhook result as HTBA May Yearling Written Tycoon reaches new Sale draws to a close Leading Singapore trainer Michael Clements will take charge of a $145,000 heights with $165,000 fee, colt by first crop sire Russian Revolution (Snitzel), the highest-priced yearling sold Tagaloa to stand for $33,000 and one of two lots to make six figures at Inglis’ HTBA May Sale. Kiwi bloodstock agent Bevan Smith, who has established a close working relationship with Zimbabwean Clements in recent years, revealed the colt was bought in conjunction with Kuldeep Singh Rajput, a young entrepreneur who has an ever-increasing racing team in Singapore. Cont. page 4 >> What's on Race meetings: Hawkesbury (NSW), Warrnambool (VIC) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Kyneton (VIC), Sale (VIC), Caulfield (VIC), Pakenham (VIC), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Toowoomba (QLD), Hobart (TAS), Rangiora (NZ), Waverley (NZ), Cambridge (NZ) International meetings: Lingfield (UK), Wolverhampton (UK), Gowran Park (IRE) Written Tycoon YULONG STUD Sales: Magic Millions Online May Sale BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS STUD NEWS ritten Tycoon (Iglesia), on the Exciting Snitzel colt verge of a possible maiden Sword Of State secured by Australian general sires title, Cambridge Stud will stand for a career-high Group 1-winning colt Sword Of State (Snitzel), W$165,000 (all fees inc GST) as the star stallion arguably New Zealand’s best two-year-old this prepares for his return to Victoria and first season, has had his future as a stallion assured season at Yulong Stud. Continued on page 2>> after Cambridge Stud Stud News page 16 >> MON 3RD - WED 5TH MAY 2021 MAGIC MILLIONS ONLINE MAY SALE SALE LIVE - CLICK HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Written Tycoon reaches new heights with $165,000 fee | 2 | Tuesday, May 4, 2021 << Continued from page 1 The Yuesheng Zhang- owned operation also last night revealed that Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) Tagaloa, the first son of Japan’s heir apparent to Deep Impact (Sunday Silence) in Lord Kanaloa (King Kamehameha) to go to stud in Australia, would stand at an introductory fee of $33,000 at the Nagambie farm. Lucky Vega (Lope De Vega), Zhang’s European Group 1 winner, will also join the Yulong roster at a fee of $22,000 later this year. Written Tycoon, who stood at Arrowfield Stud last year, trails the pensioned Not A Single Doubt (Redoute’s Choice) by just $152,723 in the race for the 2020-21 sires’ championship with a margin over I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) and four-time title holder Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice). "With his racetrack performances and what he has been able to achieve in the sales ring, Written Tycoon Tagaloa RACING PHOTOS has justified his positioning among the leading stallions in Australia," Yulong chief operating officer, Sam Fairgray was officially retired after the All Aged Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) at Randwick said. on April 24, but his fee had not been confirmed until yesterday. "It's fantastic to have a horse of his quality here at the farm and there A Magic MIllions Gold Coast Yearling Sale graduate, Tagaloa won is certainly a lot of excitement here. We are really looking forward to the three of his 13 starts, a November two-year-old race at Moonee Valley, last breeding season with him.” year’s Blue Diamond Stakes and, importantly, the C S Hayes Stakes (Gr Last month, Yulong pulled off a coup to secure the rising 19-year- 3, 1400m) at Flemington in February. He also ran third in the Australian old stallion, the sire of Group 1 winners Ole Kirk, Pippie and Odeum Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) at the same course two weeks later. this season, after reaching a deal with then majority shareholder Sheriff Fairgray is also excited about the arrival of Lucky Vega, who won last Iskander to have Written Tycoon relocate from Arrowfield Stud back to year’s Phoenix Stakes (Gr 1, 6f) at the Curragh as a juvenile. Victoria this year. Trained by Jessica Harrington, three-year-old Lucky Vega ran third in From 2013 to 2019, Written Saturday’s 2000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1m) at Newmarket in his seasonal return HE'S A SUPER LOOKING Tycoon had been standing at and the Irish 2000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1m) is the colt’s likely next target. Woodside Park Stud where his "He's a super looking horse, with a lot of strength and quality about HORSE, WITH A LOT service fee rose from $13,750 him and a beautiful head. We are really excited to have a horse of his OF STRENGTH AND to a previous high of $110,000 calibre join the roster this year," he said. QUALITY ABOUT HIM in 2018 and 2019 as his legacy "Lope De Vega has been a fantastic sire and to be able to have a Group AND A BEAUTIFUL gathered pace through the deeds 1-winning two-year-old son coming to Australia to stud is fantastic. HEAD. WE ARE REALLY of Group 1 winners Capitalist “He’ll be popular with that sireline, as we have seen it excel down here." EXCITED TO HAVE A and Music Magnate. He stood Cantala Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Yulong Prince HORSE OF HIS CALIBRE for $77,000 at Arrowfield Stud (Gimmethegreenlight), who also won at Grade 1 level in South Africa, as JOIN THE ROSTER THIS last year. previously announced will stand for $9,900 in his first season at stud while YEAR - SAM FAIRGRAY The Trent Busuttin and Alabama Express’ (Redoute’s Choice) fee of $24,750 remains unchanged Natalie Young-trained Tagaloa in his second year at stud. Yulong’s foundation sire Grunt (O’Reilly) will also stand for an YULONG STUD ROSTER unchanged fee of $13,750 in 2021, his third year at stud. 2021 2020 "Of the six stallions we are standing, we have five Group 1 winners on Written Tycoon (Iglesia) $165,000 $77,000 (at Arrowfield Stud) the track and the other one is Written Tycoon, who has left multiple Group Tagaloa (Lord Kanaloa) $33,000 new 1 winners himself," Fairgray said. Alabama Express (Redoute’s Choice) $24,750 unchanged “We have a diverse roster, with stallions at multiple price points and at Lucky Vega (Lope De Vega) $22,000 new different stages in their career. Grunt (O’Reilly) $13,750 unchanged “We look forward to welcoming breeders to Yulong to check them out Yulong Prince (Gimmethegreenlight) $9,900 new in person.” Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by 2021 GOLD COAST NATIONAL SALE including THE SHADWELL DISPERSAL OF RACEFILLIES, BROODMARES & WEANLINGS A once in a lifetime opportunity to secure some of Australia’s highest quality weanlings, broodmares and racing stock from one of the world’s foremost thoroughbred players GOLD COAST NATIONAL WEANLING & BROODMARE SALES | 20-27 MAY www.magicmillions.com.au Sales News | 4 | Tuesday, May 4, 2021 Standout $145,000 Russian Revolution colt bound for Singapore BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS eading Singapore trainer Michael Clements will take charge of a $145,000 colt by first crop sire Russian Revolution (Snitzel), the highest-pricedL yearling sold and one of two lots to make six figures at Inglis’ HTBA May Sale. Kiwi bloodstock agent Bevan Smith, who has established a close working relationship with Zimbabwean Clements in recent years, revealed the colt was bought in conjunction with Kuldeep Singh Rajput, a young entrepreneur who has an ever-increasing racing team in Singapore. Lot 238 Russian Revolution - Lucinda's Moon colt INGLIS “Kuldeep is someone new to the game who is really enthusiastic and we’ve bought a few He was bred by Avesta Bloodstock’s Jimmy He added: “The backstory of the colt is that horses for him this year at Classic and Premier,” Unwala and Scott McQueen who are offering his Matthew, the boss, bought him online through Smith said. dam Lucinda’s Moon, who is in foal to leading the Inglis Digital site for $18,000 and fortunately “It’s just great to get someone new into the first season sire Capitalist (Written Tycoon), as enough for the ladies who run his farm at game and we can’t wait to get this horse up to Lot 449 at the Australian Broodmare Sale on Kiama (Hollymount Stud), Michelle and Kristy, Michael Clements’ stables. Sunday. the colt came home and they liked him and “Michael is going so well up in Singapore Kingstar Farm’s Matthew Sandblom bought they said, ‘we’d like to buy half, Matthew’. Once and what seems to be working for him is finding the colt for $18,000 from the Noorilim Park draft again, it emphasises what sort of boss Matthew these yearlings here in Australia and he’s having at the online Inglis Great Southern Weanling i s .” great success. Sale last August and his Hollymount Stud staff Cook was also of the belief that Inglis made “And off the back of that great success he’s Michelle Harris and Kristy Marsh shared the the right call to move the HTBA sale from Scone finding new clients like Kuldeep.” windfall with their boss. to Riverside. Clements had been a regular at the Kingstar Farm manager Adam Cook had “Obviously, with the draft that we had of 13 Australasian sales but has had to rely more high hopes for the sale-topping colt prior to yearlings, having the facilities to parade these heavily on Smith’s guidance since the upheaval yesterday’s auction.