The annual labours of Tyreel Stud’s Linda and Laurence Monds have borne fruit with success in the sale ring and on the racetrack. Recent crops of Tyreel Stud yearlings have sold for as high as $1.7 million, with another colt at $1.1 million and several more around the $700,000 mark.
Star graduates of recent seasons include the Hong Kong Group 2 winner and Group 1 placegetter Aethero (Sebring), G1 Goodwood H. runner-up Behemoth (All Too Hard), and high-class sprinter Classique Legend (Not A Single Doubt).
Linda Monds told TDN AusNZ this week that meticulous planning of each season’s matings is one of the most demanding but rewarding aspects of the business.
“This season has been like every other season for Tyreel Stud when it comes to selecting the right stallion for our broodmares,” she said.
“We have spent months looking, researching, discussing and deciding on the right blend, and I believe we have got it as close as we can.
“We have chosen a mix of first-season sires and proven colonial sires, and this has come down to the physical attributes that we know the mare gives us and the physical attributes of the stallion, all the while still looking at the genetics and nicks.
Tyreel Stud's Linda Monds and Robert Sims
“With maiden mares, our imagination has to play a major role in the physical combination. When breeding, we have a couple of desires and they are to produce an athletic physical that will look the article in the sales ring, but also has the ability genetically, mentally and physically to go on to perform on the racetrack.
“Creating our matings would have to be one of the hardest decisions we make every year, and we do not always get it right. Our aim each year is to improve on the previous years, there is always room for improvement in everything you do.”
“Creating our matings would have to be one of the hardest decisions we make every year, and we do not always get it right." - Linda Monds
Monds has been impressed with this year’s new intake of first-season stallions.
“From the outside looking in to the 2020 stallion roster, there are a diverse range of first-season sires,” she said.
“We have the selection of a number of ‘colonially’ bred stallions who have performed well in Australia and who are a good outcross to Danehill-line mares with Brutal, Castelvecchio, I Am Immortal, Yes Yes Yes and Zousain. These stallions all provide a varying degree of value.
The Everest winner Yes Yes Yes provides an outcross to Danehill (USA)
“We also have on offer some highly performed internationally raced and bred stallions, which gives us more diversity when breeding and the opportunity to bring a wider range of genetics into our industry, with the likes of Blue Point, Calyx, Magna Grecia, Omaha Beach and Too Darn Hot.
“And then there are the stallions that have the ever-desired Danehill line, who will prove to be a very popular choice for broodmares free of this champion’s blood, like Cosmic Force, D’Argento, Dubious, Exceedance, Microphone, Pierata, Tassort and Unite And Conquer.
“Whether you are breeding for distance, speed or somewhere in the middle, there are more to choose from with a wider bloodline selection in 2020.”
This year’s matings
Monds outlined the 2020 plans for several key members of Tyreel’s quality band of broodmares.
The headline act is Pinocchio (Encosta De Lago). A full sister to multiple Group 1 winner Racing to Win (Encosta De Lago), Pinocchio is the dam of both Aethero and Classique Legend. Her yearling colt by So You Think (NZ) sold for $1.1 million at this year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
Pinocchio is currently in foal to I Am Invincible, and she is set to go to Pierro this year.
Pinocchio, pictured with her So You Think colt who sold for $1.1 million at this year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, is currently in foal to I Am Invincible
Another star of the Tyreel broodmare band is Written Dash (Written Tycoon), who won the G3 Typhoon Tracy S. and is from the family of Group 1 winners Sizzling and D’Argento.
Written Dash is the dam of two foals to race, including $1.7 million yearling Osamu (Exceed And Excel), who placed in the G2 Skyline S. as a 2-year-old last season. Written Dash earned $700,000 for her I Am Invincible colt at this year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. She missed to Exceed And Excel last season and will return to the same sire this spring.
Catalonia (Flying Spur), the dam of high-priced yearling and stakes-winner Espaaniyah (I Am Invincible), may not feature in this year’s mating plans. She is currently in foal to Hellbent.
“She may have a rest this year as she is due to foal later in October,” Monds said.
Monds believes mating mares is among one of the hardest decisions the farm has to make each year
Two other notable members of the broodmare band are Couredge (Show A Heart) and Lady Cartier (Fastnet Rock).
Couredge is the dam of last season’s G3 Gimcrack S. winner Every Rose (Choisir) and the multiple winners Academy (Shamus Award) and Smartedge (Smart Missile).
Tyreel bought Lady Cartier for $400,000 at this year’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale. She is a winning daughter of Ten Carat Rock (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}), who is a three-quarter sister to Redoute’s Choice and Platinum Scissors, half-sister to Manhattan Rain and full sister to the dam of Rubick.
“Couredge is in foal to Exceed And Excel and at this stage will be going back there or possibly to Microphone,” Monds said. “Lady Cartier will be visiting I Am Invincible.
“We will also be supporting All Too Hard, So You Think, Deep Field, Pride Of Dubai, Dundeel, Pierata, Written Tycoon, Smart Missile, Brazen Beau, Brutal, Hellbent and Exceedance, just to name a few.”
