Closer Look at Champion Sires

Tara Madgwick - Monday August 2

We have two champion sires in Australia for 2020/2021 in Written Tycoon, who takes the title by earnings, and I Am Invincible, who set a new record for individual Australian winners, and both came from the wrong side of the tracks so to speak, so a look at how they got to where they are statistically is well worth reading.

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Written Tycoon stands at Yulong Stud in Victoria this spring at a fee of $165,000.

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	4 SW’s / G2 Dirty Work, G3 Hightail, Rich Hips
2017	226/ $49,500	4 SW / G1 Ole Kirk, Odeum
2018	168/ $88,000	2 SWs/ G3 Enthaar, Finance Tycoon
2019	162/ $110,000	2YO’s
2020	136/ $110,000	106 yearlings
2021	199/ $77,000	Being born this spring.

Written Tycoon

I Am Invincible stands at Yarraman Park at a fee of $220,000 this spring.

I Am Invincible (Foaled 2004)

Crop Year (SH)	Mares Covered / Service Fee	Stakes-Winners/ Best Performers
2011	133/ $11,000	7 SW’s / G1 Brazen Beau, Voodoo Lad
2012	140/ $11,000	8 SW’s / G1 Viddora, Hellbent
2013	154/ $11,000	7 SW’s / G1 Invincibella, I Am a Star
2014	175/ $11,000	10 SW’s / G2 Miss Leonidas, Victorem G3 / MM 2YO Houtzen
2015	211/ $27,500	9 SW’s / G1 Oohood, Media Sensation
2016	198/ $55,000	11 SW’s G1 Loving Gaby
2017	213 / $55,000	7 SW’s / G2 Dame Giselle
2018	201/ $110,000	5 SW’s G2 Home Affairs, Imperatriz
2019	228/ $192,500	2YO’s
2020	205/ $247,500	147 Yearlings
2021	193/ $209,000	Being born this spring.

I Am Invincible

Visit the profile page for Written Tycoon

Written Tycoon in upcoming sales:

3 lots at Inglis Classic Yearling Sale

7 lots at Inglis Premier Yearling Sale

10 lots at Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale

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