{"id":4495,"date":"2010-01-28T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2010-01-28T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:51:00","slug":"writing-is-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/writing-is-on-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"WRITING IS ON THE WALL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The introduction of Written Tycoon\u2019s progeny to the yearling sale market has met with a hearty response: selling up to $55,000 and averaging over three and half times service fee.<br \/>It\u2019s a promising start for the flashy chestnut, who has impressed a diverse group of breeders since he retired to stud in 2007, following a Group Two victory at two and playing well with his peers at three.<br \/>Indeed, his three seasons at stud to date has seen the Iglesia stallion cover 323 mares: initially garnering support due to his \u2018look and book\u2019 conformation and, once his first foals had arrived, their \u2018quality\u2019 ensured three figure harems.<br \/>On the Gold Coast, leading agent Dean Hawthorne and top Sydney trainer David Payne paid $55,000 and $45,000 respectively for Written Tycoon colts, while in the opening session of the Perth Magic Millions, his lone offering to date fetched $35,000 from Asian clients.<br \/>Written Tycoon\u2019s average of $30,400 \u2013 3.7 times service fee \u2013 compares more than favourably with his first season compadres in Victoria and, in fact, is one of the best \u2018strike rates\u2019 in the nation.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/stallions_written_tycoon_pedigree.html\">Written Tycoon<\/a> will sell seven yearlings in Melbourne, while a further eight will be offered in Adelaide.<br \/>And, if the Gold Coast, Sydney and Perth are anything to go by, they won\u2019t be spending a lot of time in their boxes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The introduction of Written Tycoon\u2019s progeny to the yearling sale market has met with a hearty response: selling up to $55,000 and averaging over three and half times service fee.It\u2019s &#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-4495","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\/4495","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=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}