Victorian heavyweight Written Tycoon is the reigning Champion Australian Sire having taken the title last year for the first time and he’s a fascinating stallion having started at a low base before elevating himself to the elite sire ranks and his last two books of mares in particular hold plenty of interest.
Written Tycoon spent 2020 at Arrowfield Stud and then last year he was back in Victoria at his new home of Yulong, so let’s make a comparison of those mare books.
Written Tycoon had two years at a fee of $110,000 at Woodside Park in Victoria before venturing to Arrowfield for a season at $77,000 and then last year he moved to Yulong and had his fee set at $165,000 which is the same again this year.
Written Tycoon is a stallion that has touched breeders of all budgets and in all states as he also stood briefly in Queensland during which time his Golden Slipper winning Champion 2YO Colt and now leading young sire Capitalist was conceived.
His second two years at stud were at a fee of just $6,600, so it’s fair to say breeders from all walks of life have now had some sort of exposure to this exceptional sire that has made his fortune the hard way.
Despite the difference in service fee $77,000 in 2020 and $165,000 in 2021, the quality of the mares he covered is very similar and the total number exactly the same, 199 for both years.
| Written Tycoon Stats | 2020 $77,000 | 2021 $165,000 |
| Mares covered | 199 | 199 |
| Stakes-winners covered | 49 | 52 |
| Group winners covered | 32 | 30 |
| Group I winners covered | 8 Black Caviar More Joyous (NZ) Pasadena Girl (NZ) Plucky Belle Risque (NZ) Sheidel Shoals Speak Fondly |
9 Aloisia (NZ) Consensus (NZ) Foxplay In Her Time Melody Belle (NZ) Politeness Sheidel Soriano (NZ) Viddora |
| Dams of Stakes-winners | 31 | 30 |
| Dams of Group winners | 21 | 23 |
| Dams of Group I winners | 9 Ivictory Ole Kirk Pippie Profondo Shoals Sizzling The Quarterback Volatile Mix Written By |
13 Delectation Extreme Choice Hungry Heart Levendi Odeum Ole Kirk On the Bubbles Preferment Princess Jenni Rocket Spade Santa Ana Lane Shoals Streets of Avalon |
Sires of Dams Covered by Written Tycoon (10 or more mares in past two seasons)
In this table we’ve had a look at the sires of the mares that have gone to Written Tycoon in the past two seasons and looked to see the success rate of the nick in terms of winner to runner and SW to runner.
Written Tycoon has sired 11 stakes-winners this season alone and his overall lifetime key statistics are 76.2% winner to runner and 4.9% SW to runner.
| Broodmare Sire | Number of Mares | Winner to runner | SW to runner |
| Snitzel | 43 | 57.1% 4 winners from 7 runners | |
| Redoute’s Choice | 33 | 75% | 2.5% 1 SW 40 runners |
| Fastnet Rock | 22 | 73.1% | 11.5% 3 SW 26 runners |
| I Am Invincible | 16 | No runners | |
| More than Ready (USA) | 15 | 81% | 9.5% 2 SW 21 runners |
| Not a Single Doubt | 15 | 62.5% 5 winners from 8 runners | 25% 2 SW 8 runners |
| Hussonet (USA) | 11 | 71.4% 5 winners from 7 runners | 14.2% 1 SW 7 runners |
| Exceed and Excel | 10 | 69.2% 9 winners from 13 runners | |
| Sebring | 10 | 100% 4 winners from 4 runners | |
| Street Cry (IRE) | 10 | 100% 2 winners from 2 runners |
