{"id":3836,"date":"2012-02-23T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2012-02-23T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T22:48:00","slug":"tycoon-tony-waves-victorian-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/tycoon-tony-waves-victorian-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"TYCOON TONY WAVES VICTORIAN FLAG"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tony Cavanagh has waited a long time for Saturday: 27 years in fact.<\/span><\/div>\n
As a lifelong, and very passionate supporter of the thoroughbred industry, Tony reveled in the 1985 Blue Diamond Stakes victory of his magnificent grey, Let\u2019s Get Physical \u2026 a horse he had both bred and owned.<\/span><\/div>\n
Now, while Tony is hardly the type of bloke \u2013 at 65 years young \u2013 who would dabble in anything chemical to get his highs, he is definitely of the opinion that there is no greater narcotic than winning a big race.<\/span><\/div>\n
So, he\u2019s back again for another dose in Victoria\u2019s most prestigious (and richest) juvenile event when Andre Roo Hoo lines up at 4.30pm tomorrow for the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes.<\/span><\/div>\n
And, as he proudly points out, Andre Roo Hoo \u2013 a son of Eliza Park-based stallion and Champion Australian First Season Sire, Written Tycoon \u2013 is also another of his home breds AND is part owned by Tony.<\/span><\/div>\n
History repeating? Well, whereas Let\u2019s Get Physical was a hot favourite in his year, Andre Roo Hoo is a clear outsider and Tony had quite a few nervous moments waiting on the order of entry.<\/span><\/div>\n
Still, you have to be in it to win it and the Robbie Laing trained chestnut has at least two things in his favour: another of the part-owners, Chris Rogers (\u201cthe most knowledgeable non-racing person I\u2019ve ever met\u201d, according to Tony) also shared the glory of Let\u2019s Get Physical\u2019s victory in \u201985 and, as a consequence, Andre Roo Hoo will carry the same colours as the grey on Saturday.<\/span><\/div>\n
A Andre Roo Hoo victory would mean more to Tony than simply financial gain and the slaps on the back from his multitude of friends and clients.<\/span><\/div>\n
One of the leading bloodstock agents of the 70s and 80s, Tony has been in the \u2018wilderness\u2019 for a number of years, with his business and marriage suffering through a financial collapse, before voluntarily taking on the role of principal carer for both parents in their final years \u2026 effectively sidelining himself from the profession he\u2019s loved from day one.<\/span><\/div>\n
But if you ask him what he\u2019s most proud of as he stands poised to become the first \u2018small breeder\/owner\u2019 to win two Blue Diamonds, it\u2019s actually more about state parochialism!<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cWe have the only runner by a Victorian based sire (Written Tycoon) in Victoria\u2019s principal juvenile race and to top it off, he\u2019s the only one that\u2019s Super VOBIS qualified!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Tony was very specific about the mating and while Written Tycoon is relatively new on the scene \u2013 winning last season\u2019s national freshman title and currently heading up Australia\u2019s Second Sires\u2019 chart \u2013 Tony has had a long association with the female line.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In the late 80s, Tony travelled to Argentina with industry stalwart, Ted Cockram, securing a number of breeding and racing interests \u2013 one of them was the Champion race mare Sumatra, who had twice won the country\u2019s premier sprinting event \u2026 the equivalent to our Newmarket.<\/span><\/div>\n
Although her four winners \u2013 from only five to race \u2013 had moderate results, her fourth foal, Solar Song, would be mated with Written Tycoon in the spring of 2008 \u2026 from which Tony may just get his second Blue Diamond winner!<\/span><\/div>\n
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