Tycoon Prince blows rivals away

The well-related Tycoon Prince put the writing on the wall at his previous start and he made good on that threat over 1150 metres at Te Aroha.

The Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray-trained three-year-old had finished runner-up at Pukekohe earlier this month and our strapping homebred and raced son of Written Tycoon went one better in style.

“He drew better this time and I said to Ryan to take a sit, he’s got good gate speed, and he finished it off well,” Murray said.

“He likes good ground so he should go on with it over the summer.”

Tycoon Prince broke quickly from the gates to settle in fourth spot before working into the clear at the top of the straight and responded well to rider Ryan Elliot’s urgings to prove too good in the run home.

He is the first winner for Vanity Queen, an English-bred mare we purchased at the Tattersalls Mares’ Sale with agent John Foote signing on our behalf at 125,000gns.

She was successful as a two-year-old and is a half-sister to the Listed Newbury Fillies’ Trial Stakes winner Volume, who also placed at Group 1 level in the English and Irish Oaks, and dam of the G1 Curragh National Stakes winner Quorto.

We sold Vanity Queen’s colt by Almanzor to Foote for$260,000 at Karaka earlier this year and she had a younger sister last season before visiting Embellish.

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