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Coolmore Australia have announced service fees for 2016 on a roster of 12 stallions with champion sire Fastnet Rock again heading the list and advertised with a private fee whilst Golden Slipper winners Vancouver and Pierro are priced at $66,000.

WRITTEN TYCOON has had an incredible 2015-16 Racing Season and the milestones keep coming. WRITTEN TYCOON commences Thursday 21 April just $906 in shy of the magical $8million in seasonal earnings.

Champion Australian sire Fastnet Rock has made a good start to the new Northern Hemisphere Racing Season having already sired 18 winners from 55 runners (33%) in the UK, Ireland and France. Last night (our time) in France, he added his first stakes-winner for the season when One Foot in Heaven won the Listed Prix Seymour at Maisons Laffitte.

The impressive All Aged Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) victory of English against older horses led trainer Gai Waterhouse to declare her the best three year-old filly in Australia. Gai Waterhouse recorded her 134th career Group 1 win in the All Aged Stakes. Racing’s first lady has now trained at least one major race winner in Sydney every autumn carnival this century.

Only 1 x 5% Share Remains - Dynamic Syndications and GAI WATERHOUSE and delighted with the progress of our colt by Champion Australian 2yo & World Champion 3yo PIERRO from the Danehill Dance mare BALLERINA GIRL. PIERRO is Australia’s KING of the First Crop Sires in 2016 with 83 yearlings selling for an outstanding average of $211,987.

Howard Be Thy Name (3 c ex Bellini Rose) won Saturday’s Port Adelaide Guineas (Listed, 1800m) at Morphettville to provide his Arrowfield Stud-based sire Redoute’s Choice (Danehill) with his 130th Stakes Winner. REDOUTE’S CHOICE is the Number 1 Sire in Australia and his yearlings sold through the roof at the recent Inglis Easter Yearling Sales where he had 20 Yearlings sell for an average $573,250.

Currently occupying a lofty third place on the leading sires list, Woodside Park's Written Tycoon kept his unforgettable season rolling along when his talented son Music Magnate earned his first stakes win in Saturday's Group 3 Hall Mark Stakes (1200m) at Randwick.

The most expensive broodmare ever sold at public auction in Australia has produced her first stakes-winner in Ireland overnight. Three year-old Galileo filly Pretty Perfect for Aidan O'Brien won the Salsabil Stakes a LR over (2000m at Navan. She became the first stakes-winner for her dam Milanova and the 208th SW for Galileo.

The buzz has been out for some time in the Northern Hemisphere about the progeny of European Champion first crop sire of 2015 ZOFFANY. He's the fastest and most precocious 2yo by Dansili (Danehill). He just sired his 6th Stakes Winner from his first crop VENTURA STORM.