Closer Look at Written Tycoon

Tara Madgwick - Friday February 14

Our story on Thursday highlighting the impressive maiden win of Written Tycoon filly Written Scandal sparked plenty of interest given she comes from the so called ‘golden crop’ conceived at Arrowfield Stud by her now Yulong based champion sire, so we thought it might be interesting to go back and take a closer look at how his career has unfolded.

Few champion stallions anywhere in the world have had the commercial ups and downs of Written Tycoon, who has been ‘fee on application’ for his past two seasons at Yulong in Victoria with his once impeccable fertility now in decline resulting in much smaller mare books in 2023 and 2024.

Written Tycoon is enjoying the twilight years at Yulong.

The table below charts his career in terms of the mares covered / service fees and the resulting SW’s produced in each crop with the 2021 foal crop (3YO’s) clearly the best to date with a SW to runner strike rate of 9.5% in comparison to his lifetime strike rate of 5.7%.

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Given the likelihood of an ever-diminishing opportunity to purchase his stock, Written Tycoon yearlings have been in strong demand at sales so far this year and he had his highest priced yearlings ever at Magic Millions with Yulong selling a filly from Away Game and a colt from In Her Time for $1.8million each.

Written Tycoon has 22 for Inglis Premier – all bar three offered by Yulong - and 10 for Inglis Easter with five from Yulong.


Written Tycoon (Foaled 2002)
 

Crop Year (SH)

Mares Covered / Service Fee

Stakes-Winners/ Best Performers

2008

118/ $8,250

4 SW’s  / G2 Howmuchdoyouloveme, G3 Trump

2009

87/ $8,250

1 SW / Danger Close

2010

118/ $6,600

3 SW’s / G1 Tycoon Tara

2011

198/ $6,600

5 SW’s / G1 Music Magnate, G2 Rich Enuff

2012

152/ $11,000

3SW’s / G2 Super Cash

2013

107/ $15,400

6 SW’s / G1 Capitalist, La Luna Rossa, G2 Winning Rupert

2014

138/ $13,750

8 SW’s / G1 Booker, Despatch

2015

177/ $13,750

2 SW’s / G1 Written By, Pippie

2016

183/ $19,800

5 SW’s / G2 Dirty Work, G3 Hightail, Rich Hips

2017

226/ $49,500

9 SW / G1 Ole Kirk, Odeum

2018

168/ $88,000

4 SWs/ G3 Enthaar, Finance Tycoon

2019

162/ $110,000

5 SWs/ G1 Coolangatta

2020

136/ $110,000

5 SWs / G1 Southport Tycoon

2021

199/ $77,000

10 SWs / G1 Private Life, Lady of Camelot, Captured by Love, Velocious

2022

199 / $165,000

2YO’s/ 1SW G3 Tycoon Star

2023

172 / $165,000

Yearlings

2024

96 FOA

Weanlings

2025

63 FOA

Being born this spring


 

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