{"id":4319,"date":"2010-06-08T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2010-06-08T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T22:50:00","slug":"written-tycoon-whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/written-tycoon-whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"WRITTEN TYCOON \u2013 WHAT\u2019S IN A NAME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the general public are at least four months off seeing the first crop of Written Tycoons in action, five of his progeny have been named and, as you\u2019d imagine, there\u2019s a couple of creative monikers among them.<br \/>The $85,000 colt from Grammy Award \u2013 part of the Eliza Park\u2019s Melbourne Premier draft and the most expensive <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/stallions_written_tycoon_pedigree.html\">Written Tycoon<\/a> sold to date \u2013 is called Tycoon Warrior and another lovely colt (ex Kassiyaka) will raced as Printed.<br \/>Couldn\u2019t say with any accuracy as to where Tamban (ex Obsessed With Ella) springs from, but the two favourites are Hetty G (ex Lady of Loudoun) and Khashoggi (ex Purely).<br \/>Hetty Gee \u2013 we assume \u2013 is named after Hetty Green, the first businesswoman to make it big on Wall Street after kicking off as the family bookkeeper.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, Hetty was renowned for her \u2018frugality\u2019 \u2026 supposedly she never turned on the heat or used hot water and only changed her \u2018Reg Grundys\u2019 when they wore out.<br \/>She never washed her hands \u2013 to save on soap \u2013 and when her son broke his leg, Hetty tried to have him admitted to a hospital charity ward, storming out when recognised and determining to treat the injury herself. The leg became gangrenous and had to be amputated (leaving him with a cork prosthesis), but the kid got his own back eventually.<br \/>After she died at 81 \u2013 evidently due to apoplexy caused by a blue over the price of skimmed milk \u2013 the son quickly worked his way through the family fortune, purchasing \u2013 among other extravagances \u2013 a diamond-encrusted chamber pot.<br \/>Full marks to the filly\u2019s new owners and let\u2019s hope she wins enough money for all connections to afford their own chamber pots.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Same goes for the owners of Khashoggi \u2013 clearly named after the Turkish-Saudi Arabian arms dealer and business tycoon Adnan Khashoggi.<br \/>Implicated in the Iran-Contra and Lockheed bribery scandals, Khashoggi was considered richest man in the world in the 80s and was uncle of Princess Di\u2019s last squeeze Dodi Al-Fayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the general public are at least four months off seeing the first crop of Written Tycoons in action, five of his progeny have been named and, as you\u2019d imagine, &#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-4319","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\/4319","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=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}