Written Tycoon - New Winner

There were two heats for juveniles at Warwick Farm on Tuesday morning with winners including a full brother to this year’s Group III VRC Red Roses Stakes winner Amelita.

The catalogue for NZB’s 2024 Ready to Run Sale at Karaka was already loaded with quality, but a number of big-race performances by siblings and close relatives this spring have added even more points of major interest.

Here is the full list of 28 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A well-beaten second as favourite on debut behind the promising Shamus Award filly Fluent on the Ballarat Synthetic, the Written Tycoon filly Daella showed an appreciation for the turf with a fast-finishing win in the Rosemont Stud Maiden Plate at Cranbourne on Wednesday.

Pride of Dubai has sired some seriously special mares and a debut winner at Kyneton on Monday in some very famous colours caught our eye as a ‘One to Watch’.

The retirement of Hong Kong megastar Golden Sixty has done nothing to slow the momentum of NZB’s Ready to Run Sale, with buyers from across Australasia and Asia converging on Karaka for the two-day sale on Wednesday and Thursday.

Turning 18 next year, Lope de Vega has many fans in Australia and sired this year’s Group I MRC Caulfield Cup winner Duke de Sessa (IRE) so there will be interest in the news that his Group I Prix du Jockey Club winning son Look de Vega will be joining him at Ballylinch Stud in 2025.

In a coup for the New Zealand racing industry, the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) have announced the arrival of World Pool to two New Zealand thoroughbred meetings in early 2025.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2024 Ready to Run Sale is just moments away, set to take place on 20 and 21 November at the iconic Karaka Sales Centre.

Wentwood Grange savoured a trans-Tasman double at the weekend and the Hawkins family will be looking for further reasons to celebrate at this week’s New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale.