G1 Pedigree Watch – Nicks That Click

Tara Madgwick - Sunday March 3

There were four Group I races run in Australasia on Saturday and two of those winners are new G1 winners and both have added further gloss to a couple of exceptional nicks that run at 10.7% SW to runner and 14% SW to runner.

Southport Tycoon ins the G1 VRC Australian Guineas - image Grant Courtney

Written Tycoon colt Southport Tycoon broke his Black Type maiden in style landing his first stakes win when taking out the Group I VRC Australian Guineas, click here to read about him.

Southport Tycoon is the 62nd stakes-winner for Written Tycoon and is his 13th Group I winner.

Written Tycoon and More Than Ready have forged quite an affinity with 23 winners from 28 runners (82% winner to runner) bred this way and three are SW’s, but tellingly they are all G1 winners Southport Tycoon joining Coolangatta and La Luna Rossa. The SW to runner strike rate for the nick of 10.7% is significantly higher than Written Tycoon’s SW to runner strike rate of 5.5%.

Southport Tycoon is the 172nd SW for champion sire More Than Ready as a broodmare sire and 23 of them are G1 winners. He runs at 5.2% SW to runner as a broodmare sire.

His dam is a US bred daughter of More Than Ready from a quality female family that has had good success in Australia  producing Group I winners Delectation and Artorius.

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Orchestral was a dominant winner of the NZ Derby - Racing Images

Kiwi bred Savabeel filly Orchestral does look something special and her Group I New Zealand Derby win was something worth watching, click here to read about her.

Orchestral is the 33rd Group I winner for Cox Plate winning champion sire Savabeel and is his ninth from a daughter of another champion sire in O’Reilly, who has sired the dams of 135 SW's and 28 are G1 winners.

The Savabeel x O’Reilly nick has been well tried as you can imagine with 163 winners from 221 runners (73.8%) while the 31 SW’s (nine G1) makes for a 14% SW to runner strike rate which is higher than Savabeel’s 11% SW to runner.

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