News - WRITTEN BY (AUS)
Widden Stud’s value sire Written By featured with a winning double at Happy Valley on Wednesday evening with smart wins for Super Sixty and Virtus Glory, who looks to have a bright future.
Two newly minted three year-old stakes-winners last Saturday highlighted a great nick for a value sire and a gorgeous grey mare, who had quite a following back in the late 1980’s.
The $250,000 Group III ATC Up and Coming Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill on Saturday was a race well named as it turned out with up and comers filling the trifecta and it was the Waterhouse Bott trained Written By gelding Plagiarism leading the way.
The great Neville Begg prepared countless Group I winners in a long and successful as a trainer, but he is also a very astute breeder and a two year-old he bred and races was a promising winner at Wyong on Thursday.
A homebred for Ron Finemore, two year-old Written By gelding By Napolean Hill was taking on some blueblood colts in the 1250m maiden at Canterbury on Wednesday, but showed a superior turn of foot to open his account in style.
A modest Magic Millions Book 2 purchase for just $60,000 for Tricolours Racing Syndications, Written By filly The Playwright has taken her all-ladies group of owners on the ride of a lifetime and sold at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale on Thursday for $675,000 in the Newgate Consignment.
Ace Lawson-Carroll’s dream comeback is continuing, with the South Auckland apprentice jockey set to cross the Tasman to ride Bona Sforza in the A$1 million Gr.1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville on Saturday.
Written By is well known for his slick juveniles and one of his best has been Group II ATC Silver Slipper winner Straight Charge, whose two year-old full brother made a dazzling winning debut on Sunday.
Written By filly Bona Sforza won the Listed Welcome Stakes last year at Riccarton on debut and 12 months later was back at the same venue on Saturday to take out the Listed NZB Insurance Stakes (1600m).
Widden Stud’s value sire Written By only had one entry for Inglis Easter and that was a cracking chestnut colt from Solar Kitty that delivered a pinhook success for savvy New Zealand based vendor Lyndhurst Farm.
Gilgai Farm blazed through the second and final session of Inglis Premier Book 1 producing four of the top six yearlings sold on Monday and they included fillies by Kermadec and Written By that provided benchmark sales for their respective sires.
A half-brother to a pair of stakes-winners in Daisies and Zou Tiger, this three year-old gelding by Written By made a winning debut at Gosford on Wednesday as favourite.
Samantha and Francis Finnegan followed a successful pattern when going to $125,000 to purchase a sharp filly by Written By at the Summer Sale at Karaka on Thursday.
The release of third declarations for the Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes next month has Widden Stud’s fairytale colt Unit Five still in the mix after his brilliant win in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic, but next week the focus for Team Widden turns to Inglis Classic.
The Ciaron Maher stable is on a high with their juveniles after a quinella in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic last Saturday and another of their spring stakes-winners Calamari Ring was a winner at the Warwick Farm trials on Thursday morning.
The Waterhouse Bott stable have had plenty of success with juveniles by Widden Stud’s Written By claiming Group wins with the likes of Straight Charge, The Playwright and The Novelist and they unleashed a talented debut winner by the same sire at Randwick on Saturday in By Choice.
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Three heats for juveniles at Randwick on Thursday morning were all won by unraced youngsters that included a million dollar filly from the first crop of Home Affairs and the other two winners both have siblings in upcoming sales.
There was just one heat for juveniles at Randwick on Monday morning, but it held good interest with Breeders Plate third place-getter Revengeance given a tick over outing, while the heat winner is bred on a nick that clicks.
The Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale on Thursday produced a glowing endorsement for the progeny of Written By through the eyes of Asian buyers with five offered and all of them sold to either Hong Kong or Malaysia at an average $256,000.