Written Tycoon crowned champion Victorian stallion
Written Tycoon (Iglesia) has been named IRT Champion Victorian Sire of the Year for the ninth time after another impressive year from his juvenile progeny on the track.
Standing at Yulong Stud, this season Written Tycoon sired three new Group 1 winners including Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) champion Lady Of Camelot, Australian Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Southport Tycoon as well as exciting New-Zealand Group 1–winning two-year-old Velocious.
Hayasugi’s (Royal Meeting) Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) victory escalated the standings of her emerging sire Royal Meeting (Invincible Spirit), with the stallion from Lovatsville named this year’s IRT Champion Victorian First Season Sire at Saturday’s ceremony.
After a standout season from Bella Nipotina (Pride Of Dubai), where she added an additional two Group 1 victories to her career record, the mare was awarded this year’s TAB Champion Victorian Bred Racehorse.
Her performances on the track were so momentous this season that the six-year-old also elevated the deeds of her dam Bella Orfana (Star Witness) in determining her to be awarded as this year’s Avenel Equine Hospital Champion Victorian Broodmare.
Almost ten years after he retired to stud, Toronado (High Chaparral) was again awarded the Racing Victoria VOBIS Sire of the Year.
Standing at Swettenham Stud, Toronado this season recorded his fifth Group 1-winning progeny, when the Danny Shum-trained Victor The Winner took out the Centenary Sprint Cup (Gr 1, 1200m) at Sha Tin.
Classy Zoustar (Northern Meteor) filly Miss Roumbini was awarded this year’s Racing Victoria VOBIS Horse of the Year.
Rosemont Stud was awarded the Racing Victoria VOBIS Nominator of the Year award.
This year their leading stallion Shamus Award (Snitzel) sired his sixth individual Group 1 winner when the filly Quintessa defeated the boys in the Levin Classic (Gr 1, 1600m).
The Matt Laurie-trained Pierata (Pierro) colt, Coleman, was named the Inglis Champion Victorian Bred 2YO. Bred by Rhys and Chloe Smith from Kulani Park, Coleman burst onto the scene last October when he became his Yulong-based first-season sire Pierata’s first runner and winner in the Debutant Stakes (Listed 1000m), at Caulfield.
The Belmont Bloodstock Agency Champion Victorian Bred 3YO was awarded to Veight (Grunt) after his season culminated with a win in the George Ryder Stakes (Gr 1, 1500m) at weight-for-age level, the first three-year-old since Pierro (Lonhro) in 2013 to achieve the feat.