{"id":4011,"date":"2011-06-23T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2011-06-23T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T10:18:00","slug":"tycoon-is-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/tycoon-is-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"TYCOON IS FLYING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not content with standing the sire of the world\u2019s best racehorse, Bel Esprit and Black Caviar, Victorian nursery Eliza Park Stud is set to lay claim to Australia\u2019s newest Champion First Season Sire, Written Tycoon.<br \/>The son of former speed machine Iglesia is poised to become the first Victorian based stallion since then Chatswood Stud resident, Flying Spur (1999\/00) to be crowned Australia\u2019s champion freshman.<br \/>Up until now, Written Tycoon has needed only 9 runners to accumulate his four winners, aided in no small way high stakes earners, Masthead and Written Consent.<br \/>\u201cEven from when the first two-year-olds trials were on, his offspring showed plenty of ability and the next stage was to do it on the track and they\u2019ve certainly done that,\u2019\u2019 Eliza Park Stud\u2019s general manager (operations) David Somers said.<br \/>\u201cWritten Tycoon (<i>below<\/i>) has covered big books of mares including his first year at stud so we look forward to seeing a lot more of his runners over the next 12 months. He throws a really nice type with plenty of size and plenty of strength,\u2019\u2019 Somers said, \u201cand one thing about him is that as well as getting some very nice winners they are actually good sales horses as well because they\u2019re such nice types.\u2019\u2019<br \/>It\u2019s hard getting one of the roster to Champion First Season honours, but Eliza park boasts a realistic chance of doing it all again when the debut progeny of Wanted hit the track in the 2013\/14 season.<br \/>Wanted is a son of boom sire Fastnet Rock out of a stakeswinning Snippets mare, Fragmentation.<br \/>He was also a grand two-year-old himself winning the AJC Kindergarten Stakes before training on to add the Group 1 VRC Newmarket Handicap.<br \/>\u201cWanted got a lovely book of mares in his first year but is getting even better support and better mares this year. We\u2019re looking forward to seeing his foals, he\u2019s got a very good chance.\u2019\u2019<br \/><i>&#8211; Shayne O\u2019Cass, Sportsman<\/i><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not content with standing the sire of the world\u2019s best racehorse, Bel Esprit and Black Caviar, Victorian nursery Eliza Park Stud is set to lay claim to Australia\u2019s newest Champion &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}