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When the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale is in progress the headlines are mostly generated by the million dollar horses and the sires that produce them, but further down the line some sires achieved their best ever results at this historic sale so let’s take a look at the quiet achievers.
Fresh from siring Straight Charge to win this year’s Group II ATC Silver Slipper, Widden Stud’s young sire Written By hit a home run at Inglis Easter on Sunday when his colt from Mandalong Snitjess sold for $700,000 to set a new benchmark in the sale ring for the sire son of Written Tycoon.
Written By was a dominant winner of the 2018 Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes before retiring to stand at Widden Stud and he featured on Saturday with with an exciting new stakes-winner when quality colt Straight Charge led all the way to win the $300,000 Group II ATC Silver Slipper Stakes (1100m).
An important day for two Waterhouse/Bott runners on Saturday for the Magic Millions 2yo Classic aspirants Storm Boy and Straight Charge.
Two heats for juveniles at Randwick on Tuesday morning and we might have seen the winner of the 2024 Magic Millions 2YO Classic, which is not surprisingly trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.
On a mammoth day of racing, there were few more impressive performances than Ripcord in the $500,000 Listed Tabtouch - Placid Ark Stakes (1200m) at Ascot.
The Australian second crop sires table is a very even one at present and on the score of winners it’s Widden Stud’s Written By leading the way with a quinella at Hawkesbury on Thursday giving him his eighth winner of the new season.
A month into the new season and the second crop sires list is an interesting one with Widden Stud’s Blue Diamond winner Written By setting the pace for winners with Yulong based Grunt putting himself into the picture with a sensational return for his quality colt Veight in the Group III MRC McNeil Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday.
Third on debut in the Listed Merson Cooper Stakes behind Little Brose and Cylinder, Gangitano has run into several promising sorts in three subsequent races. The son of Written By was odds-on to break his maiden over 1400m on the Pakenham synthetic on Thursday and disdainfully disposed of his overmatched rivals.
The first runner of the new season for Widden Stud young gun Written By returned a winner when three year-old filly Written Bligh saluted at Sale for Grahame Begg, who also put the polish on her sire.
Widden Stud’s young gun Written By posted an impressive debut winner in Perth on Wednesday with the Grant and Alana Williams trained filly Written Melody scoring an easy victory.
Written Tycoon is set to play a role at Royal Ascot next week with his glamour daughter Coolangatta running in the Group I King’s Stand Stakes along with his grand-son Cannonball, so where is he at as a sire of sires?
Widden Stud’s promising young sire Written By posted his second stakes-winner in Perth on Saturday when speedy colt Ripcord made a winning debut in the Listed WATC Perth Stakes (1100m).
The Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale tends to be dominated by big gun Queensland sires Spirit of Boom and Better Than Ready and while they were the leading sires by aggregate they had to settle for second and third on the sire averages list behind Written By.
A colt by Written By rounded out the day as top seller as strong selling saw the 2023 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale declared the second best ever.
Widden Stud’s promising young sire Written By achieved a big result late on Monday at Inglis Premier when the Gilgai Farm bred and sold colt from Holy Cow sold for $410,000 to equal the previous best sales result for the young sire son of Written Tycoon.
Backed as if unbeatable at his career debut at Eagle Farm on October 8, Sunday Mail deflated his supporters when trailing home last of the eight starters.
This popular Breednet report featuring all unraced progeny of first season sires at the trials always holds interest and particularly with the Magic Millions Yearling Sale coming up next week for vendors offering yearlings by these sires.
Widden Stud couldn’t be happier with the timing of their promising young sire Written By in posting his first stakes-winner on Christmas Eve and they have three youngsters in their Magic Millions draft by this exciting sire son of Written Tycoon.
Exciting young sire Written By provided the perfect Christmas gift for Widden Stud and his supporters when siring his first stakes-winner on Christmas Eve with speedy colt The Novelist capturing the Group III BRC BJ McLachlan Stakes (1200m) with a bold front running display.