NEWGATE FARM’S FOUR-STRONG SEVENTH TITLE FOR SAVABEEL WHO ENDS INVESTMENT PAYS OFF WITH TRIO SEASON AS AUSTRALASIA’S LEADING SIRE DOMINATING FIRST SEASON TITLE - PAGE 6 OF STAKES WINNERS - PAGE 8 Sunday, August 1, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here What's on RACING'S Metropolitan meetings: Devonport (TAS) Race meetings: Kembla Grange (NSW), Forbes (NSW), Donald (VIC), Sandown Lakeside (VIC), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Kalgoorlie (WA), Port Hedland (WA), Port Augusta (SA), Te CHAMPIONS Aroha (NZ) International meetings: Chester (GB), Thirsk (GB), Galway (IRE), Clairefontaine (FR), Dusseldorf (GER), Hassloch (GER), Niigata (JPN), Hakodate (JPN), Kranji (SGP), Del Mar (US), Saratoga (US), Monmouth (US), Woodbine (CAN) International Group races: Dusseldorf (GER) - Prix der Diana (Gr 1, 2400m), Fritz Henkel (Gr 3, 1600m), Hakodate (JPN) - Hokkaido Shimbun Hai Queen Stakes (Gr 3, 1800m), Del Mar (US) - Clement L Hirsch Stakes (Gr 1, 8.5f), Saratoga (US) - Amsterdam Stakes (Gr 2, 6.5f), Woodbine (CAN) - Royal North Stakes (Gr 2, 6f), Vigil Stakes (Gr 3, 6f) Champion stallions 2020-21 ANZ WRITTEN TYCOON CROWNED CHAMPION AUSTRALIAN SIRE TO END SNITZEL'S FOUR-YEAR REIGN year which will see him return to Victoria BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS at Yulong Stud, sired 12 individual stakes MORNING BRIEFING ritten Tycoon (Iglesia), in a winners in 2020-21 and progeny earnings of stud career traversing three $17,035,983, led by Group 1 winners Ole Kirk, 20 for Star Turn states and 14 years, has Odeum and Pippie. Star Turn (Star Witness) ended an outstanding won his maiden Australian Yarraman Park Stud’s I Am Invincible season with his first crop with another Wgeneral sires championship, ending the four- (Invincible Spirit), who sired an Australian winner, taking his tally to 20 for the season, year reign of prolific rival Snitzel (Redoute’s record 208 individual winners last season, 19 in Australia, and to within one of Capitalist Choice), and the first “Victorian” stallion to do was second on the overall sires’ table with (Written Tycoon) after Turning (2 g ex Miskish by so in more than 40 years. progeny earnings of $15,735,576, while Not A Fastnet Rock) claimed a first victory in the 2YO The newly minted champion, who was Single Doubt (Redoute’s Choice) was third with Maiden Handicap (1000m) at Muswellbrook the centre of a major buyout earlier this $15,639,605. Continued on page 2>> yesterday. Continued on page 11>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Racing's Champions | 2 | Sunday, August 1, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Snitzel, after four consecutive years at “Woodside provided 20 to 30 the top, finished fourth with $14,241,745 in progeny earnings. mares to Written from day one Written Tycoon’s premiership is also a crowning moment for Mark and we did our best to bring him Rowsthorn, who played studmaster at Woodside Park Stud during the to the attention of all breeders pivotal period the son of Iglesia (Last Tycoon) made his long march up over the years,” Rowsthorn said. the Australian sires’ table. “His success is very much Rowsthorn, who completed a deal to sell Woodside Park Stud to Eddie on the horse but, without our Hirsch in recent weeks, declared Written Tycoon as “an out-and-out management and support, his Ole Kirk SPORTPIX champion”. success may not have been as His fee increased from an advertised $13,750 to $110,000 (inc GST) great.” under Rowsthorn’s watch before a one-year agreement saw Written Yulong Stud’s chief operating officer Sam Fairgray was thrilled that Tycoon stand at Arrowfield Stud in the Hunter Valley last year for a fee of Written Tycoon had joined Zhang’s stallion roster at the peak of his $77,000. powers. He is the first Victorian-based stallion to be Australia’s leading sire “He’s such a durable stallion. He gets colts, fillies, sprinters and horses since Century (Better Boy) in 1978-79. who get over distances. He’s very versatile,” Fairgray said. “From a humble start, he did it the hard way with working-class mares “We’ve seen his yearlings sell for $1.2 million at Magic Millions (this and now he’s covering the very best. The future is very exciting with sons year), he had the sales topper in Melbourne ($1.1 million) and so forth. of his standing looking very much like they have carried the genes to “He’s shown what a fantastic stallion he is because he’s upgraded a produce high-quality juveniles,” Rowsthorn said yesterday. lot of his mares and he hasn’t started with a high-quality batch of mares. “Written Tycoon stood at Woodside for nearly ten years and he “As he’s become more successful, the quality has improved and so provided the anchor to our roster. His fertility and longevity are hallmarks have his results.” Continued on page 4>> of his legendary status. “We will miss him very much but we will continue to be one of his largest customers.” Also this season’s leading Australian three-year-old sire, Written FARM MANAGER Tycoon had stints at Eliza Park Stud in Victoria and Queensland prior to relocating to Woodside Park for the majority of his career and the 19-year- REQUIRED old will live out his days at Yuesheng Zhang’s Yulong Stud at Nagambie, where he will stand for a fee of $165,000. Written Tycoon, who began his stud career in 2007, had been at Woodside Park Stud from 2013 to 2019, finished ninth on the table last year, seventh in 2018-19 and eighth the previous two seasons. His previous best finish was in 2015-16 when he finished third on the table, the same season in which his Queensland-conceived son Capitalist For an established Stud Farm in QATAR. won the Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m). 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Apply with a Covering Letter & CV to: [email protected] All applications will be in the strictest confidence Written Tycoon YULONG Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by THE FIRST VICTORIAN-BASED Champion Australian General Sire in 43 years Racing's Champions | 4 | Sunday, August 1, 2021 << Continued from page 2 Written Tycoon’s prowess as a sire of sires was strongly enforced last season through the deeds of Golden Slipper winner Capitalist and Newgate Farm barnmate Winning Rupert, while this season he has Ole Kirk (Vinery Stud) and Group 2 winner Dirty Work (Spendthrift Australia) retiring to stud. “In the next few years people who want to buy colts for the syndicates, the Written Tycoon colts are going to be very popular and he’ll be a good broodmare sire in the years to come as well,” Fairgray said. “I think he’s recognised now as obviously one of the elite stallions here in Australia and the broodmares that he got last season and what he’s going to get this season, he’s getting the best broodmares in Australia, so he’s a lovely horse to have about. “Having worked with some of the best stallions like Redoute’s Choice and Written Tycoon, their character and personality are very similar. Encosta De Lago COOLMORE “They are both chilled, HOW THE TITLE WAS WON relaxed horses and they are able stallion Encosta De Lago (Fairy King) for the fourth time with earnings of Leading progeny for Written Tycoon 2020-21 to pass that onto their progeny $29,892,831. and that is what helps them to be The damsire of The Everest (1200m) winner Classique Legend (Not A OLE KIRK (3 C EX successful on the racetrack. Single Doubt), Encosta De Lago reclaimed the title from Redoute’s Choice NATURALE BY BEL ESPRIT) 7-2:2:1 $1,989,050 “He’s a lovely old horse, he (Danehill) who had won it in the previous two seasons. Gr 1 Golden Rose has a great temperament and we Encosta De Lago also claimed the champion broodmare sire Gr 1 Caulfield Guineas are all very proud to have him premiership in 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18. ODEUM (3 F EX MOVIE BY standing at Yulong for the rest of The leading second season sire was Vinery Stud’s Headwater (Exceed RED RANSOM) his career.” And Excel), who sired two stakes winners and 46 individual winners who 10-3:3:0 $974,350 Gr 1 Thousand Guineas have progeny earnings of $2,565,381. Encosta De Lago top The shining light was second crop two-year-old Jamea who won the Percy PIPPIE (6 M EX COUPE EXPRESS BY NE COUPEZ broodmare sire Sykes Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) for NSW provincial trainers Robert and Luke Price. PAS) Meanwhile, the champion Headwater, who stands for a fee of $16,500 this year, turned the tables 4-1:0:0 $639,000 Australian broodmare sire was on the 2019-20 leading first season sire Pride Of Dubai (Street Cry) who Gr 1 Moir Stakes taken out by the late Coolmore was runner-up last season. Continued on page 6>> GENERAL SIRES | AUSTRALIA RANK STALLION YOF - TO STUD BREEDING RNRS WNRS WINS SW(SWINS) EARNINGS BEST PERFORMER 1 Written Tycoon (AUS) 2002 - 2007 Iglesia - Party Miss 379 193 313 12(17) $17,035,983 Ole Kirk - 1,989,050 2 I Am Invincible (AUS) 2004 - 2010 Invincible Spirit - Cannarelle 358 208 335 12(17) $15,735,576 Libertini - 944,000 3 Not a Single Doubt (AUS) 2001 - 2005 Redoute's Choice - Singles Bar 236 103 150 8(10) $15,639,605 Classique Legend - 7,132,000 4 Snitzel (AUS) 2002 - 2006 Redoute's Choice - Snippets' Lass 319 161 245 13(18) $14,241,745 Wild Ruler - 1,205,200 5 So You Think (NZ) 2006 - 2012 High Chaparral - Triassic 266 133 230 12(18) $13,870,945 Think