As we head into the sales season every yearling buyer thinks they know what they are looking for, but do they? This new Breednet innovation seeks to shed light on what the best progeny of a sire looked like as yearlings so we can maybe learn a lesson going forward, this time we look at Written Tycoon, who has made every post a winner since transferring to Arrowfield last year. Click to see the full gallery of Written Tycoon SW's as yearlings. Click to see the full gallery of Written Tycoon yearling images uploaded to MM.
An outstanding sire that is enjoying his best ever season with 10 stakes-winners on the board, you could be forgiven for thinking the racing gods have always been smiling on Written Tycoon, but that’s not the case.
In 2015, the year in which James Harron purchased Golden Slipper winner Capitalist from Magic Millions, his sire Written Tycoon had a total of 37 yearlings sold at all Australasian sales for an average of just $58,756.
This year he has more than 40 yearlings catalogued for Magic Millions alone and his average at this sale last year of $269,792 coupled with his current hot form would indicate Written Tycoon will be a major player at the very top end of the market.
From our data base of images we have put together a selection Written Tycoon stakes-winners pictured as yearlings that offer some real insight into his offspring.
His stock are very much sprinter milers with just two of his 41 stakes-winners scoring their stakes wins beyond 1600m, so his offspring are very reflective of that in type.
Short coupled and well muscled, they are built for speed and many have shown good precocity including this season’s boom 2YO filly Enthaar and of course his past glamour 2YO colts Capitalist and Written By.
Below are all the Written Tycoon Magic Millions yearlings with images currently uploaded, which ones are the stakes-winners of the future?
Click here to see the previous story in this series on Fastnet Rock.
Click here for the story on Snitzel.
Click here for the story on So You Think.
What Does a Good Written Tycoon Look Like?
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