Hugh Bowman after winning at Canterbury on Raido

Our 40th winner for the season!!!

When Hugh Bowman drove Raido to the front at Canterbury today he became our 40th winner for the season with many of these wins metropolitan class victories.  Unfortunately our strike rate has dropped below 20% but still 19.5% is better than any of the top 20 trainers in Australia where the average is 14.5%.  

Maraska wins at Ipswich – great win under the circumstances

Win 39 for the 2014/15 Season

The 2014/15 Season comes to a close on Friday and in many ways it has been a great season for us with 40 winners wearing our colours.  Hopefully Hazy Blur can become our 41st.  I will list each of these horses later in the dispatch but firstly I must thank our trainers for the wonderful job they do for us along with their dedicated staffs.

In the main our trainers have excelled on both the national stage but also in their state arenas.  Darren Weir finished top of the Australian Trainers Premiership, Kris Lees 7th, Tony McEvoy 13th and Tony Gollan 14th.  Kris Lees had the best strike rate of these four outstanding horsemen with 16.3% winners to runners.  This was the 4th best strike rate amongst the top 20 trainers in Australia for the season.

Darren Weir also won the Victorian, Melbourne and Victorian Country Premierships.  Patrick Payne and John Moloney finished in the top 20 on the Victorian Country Premiership with John having a very creditable 19% winners to runners.

Kris Lees finished 4th on the NSW Premiership, 7th on the Sydney Metropolitan and 2nd on the NSW Provincial Premierships.  He had a great season.  Tony McEvoy and John Thompson finished in the top 20 on the Sydney Metropolitan Premierships with Tony also winning the South Australian Premiership and finishing 2nd on the Adelaide Metropolitan Premiership.

Tony Gollan finished as Brisbane’s top trainer breaking Bruce McLachlan’s long standing record for metropolitan wins.  Congratulations to him on a wonderful season.

In Tasmania the training partnership of Charlie Goggin and Leuella Meaburn finished 11th on the Trainers Premiership which is a good effort considering they are now training a small team of horses. 

40 wins from 205 starters 19.5% winners to runners (as at 30/07/15)

• Hijack Hussy (2 Wins Listed Lexus Plate Flemington), Savoureux (3 Wins Listed Mode Stakes)
• Husson Eagle (3 Wins, 5th Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes, Annaman (2 Wins)
• Pitt Street (Winner Muswellbrook Cup, 2nd Conquering Plate), Raido (3 Wins)
• Stimuli Winner (Warwick Farm),Terra Amata (Wins Warwick Farm and Canterbury)
• Unique (Wins Royal Randwick and Canterbury), Bella Venus (3 Wins)
• Awasita (Winner Sandown), Invincible Me (Winner Morphettville), Maraska (2 Wins)
• Atalanta Miss (2 Wins incl Adelaide Magic Millions), Makeadane (2 Wins)
• Faith’n’Courage (Winner Doomben), The Deestructor (Winner Eagle Farm)
• Sanosuke (Winner), Prime Shadow (Winner), Sitkamose (Winner), Shining Brook (Winner)
• Rumeron (4 Wins incl Tasmanian Magic Millions) 

As we move into the New Season we have the best credentialed team of horses we have ever had to represent us with about 50 well-bred gallopers.  Let us hope they all give us plenty to cheer about.

THE WEEK AHEAD

We have a quiet week with Hazy Blur running at Tamworth on Friday.  Terra Amata kicks off the new season at Rosehill on Saturday and Rumeron may run at Muswellbrook on Sunday. 

YEARLING OF THE WEEK

Written Tycoon colt out of Miss Fascination by Redoute’s Choice

Same cross as MASTHEAD winner of $969,176

ONLY 2 Written Tycoon progeny to race

With this cross!!!

The Colt

This colt really took my eye at the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale.  He is a cracking type with a great looking head, powerful hindquarter, good depth of girth, strong forearm and great legs. I can’t ever remember getting as many compliments at a sale after purchasing a yearling.  In my opinion he was if not the best colt in the sale certainly in the top five as a type.

The colt has many things going for him including:

• He is the first foal of a well related Redoute’s Choice mare from a nice female line that has produced plenty of winners with the 2nd and 3rd dams being stakes winners.  These mares have had 18 to race for 14 winners.
• He vetted out without any issues and has good–rays.
• He has thrown very much to his grandsire Last Tycoon and the cross with this great sire’s daughters to Redoute’s Choice has produced an incredible 24 individual winners from just 29 runners with 8 stakes horses including Bonaria, Master Of Design and Drumbeats.  The latter two being sires standing in Australia.

I have decided to pay him up for the rich Magic Millions series which will see only Magic Millions horses eligible to run for the $10million on offer at the Magic Millions Premier Day at the Gold Coast each January from 2016.  

Written Tycoon

He is by a sire that has done a remarkable job since commencing stud duties in Australia.  Here are some important points on Written Tycoon.

• He is by Iglesia a super sprinting son of the great international sire Last Tycoon.  Iglesia still holds the track record at Flemington of 1 minute 7.16 seconds for 1200 metres.
• Written Tycoon is out of the very well-bred Marscay mare Yodells which again points to him being a sire that will get good fast horses but also nice 1600 metres types such as Rich Enuff.
• Written Tycoon is right up there with the best this season with 10 stakes wins to his credit.
• He had five individual stakes winners in February 2015, a remarkable performance.
• The breeders have continued to strongly support him with him covering his biggest book of mares last season at 177.  This is a big figure for a Victorian based sire.
• Written Tycoon crosses well with Danehill line mares.
• 15/06/15 Written Tycoon gets 100th individual winner for the season.

Miss Fascination

There isn’t much more to write about Miss Fascination.  This is the first foal of the mare and I do like purchasing first foals and particularly those out of Redoute’s Choice mares. I now have quite a few horses in our team out of Redoute’s Choice mares with Hijack Hussy being the best and only one to run at this stage and she was also a first foal.

There are a lot of myths about first foals but in my experience good breeders send their young mares to the best sires they can afford and I’m certain this is the case here.  To be successful mares need their progeny to come out running.

Only two Redoute’s Choice mares have had runners by Written Tycoon with Masthead being the best. He won $969,167 in stakes money.