For his second consecutive start, the Logan McGill-trained Written Choice, a Woodside Park sold yearling son of Written Tycoon, showed sustained speed to capture another heat of the Ladbrokes 55 Seconds Challenge at Moonee Valley on Friday night. Recording 54.77 for the 955m in Heat 3 of the challenge, a time that bettered six winners from the past eight years of the challenge, the victory really highlighted the class he [...]
The deeds of Written Tycoon’s G1-winning colt are there for all to see, but now as a 3yo, Grahame Begg’s Written By resumed in September, recording victory at Caulfield before returning to the track some three weeks later to capture the G3 Blue Sapphire Stakes (1200m). Achieving the highest timeform rating of any 2yo from his crop at 120, the performance of the smashing looking chestnut at Caulfield last week [...]
A flourish over the latter part of the week, saw Written Tycoon record five winners in seven days, taking is season haul to 32 for the season so far. Written Tycoon’s double at Moonee Valley on Friday night was a highlight of the week with the second race of the night going the way of the Grant and Peter Dalziel-trained Manini Mischief who recorded his fourth career win from 17 [...]
Having just his second Australian start for the Darren Weir stable, Tosen Stardom’s close relation Tosen Basil was elevated to one of the leading contenders in the betting in both the G1 Caulfield Cup and G1 Melbourne Cup after an impressive second in Sunday’s G1 Underwood Stakes which had connections extremely excited With five stakes winner over the weekend highlighted by two G1 victories, including a quinella in one, the [...]
