She was a beautifully natured horse but as lethal as a force five hurricane

Typhoon Tracy was bred and raced by Hutchins thoroughbreds of Queensland out of the good sire, Red Ransom (USA). Her dam was the 2010 Broodmare of the Year, Tracy's Element who won four G1 races and a G2 race in South Africa. Tracy's Element was by the international sire, Last Tycoon (IRE) and foaled in Australia. She raced in South Africa, before she was brought back to Australia via the United States. Typhoon Tracy is a sister to listed races winner, Red Element, who stood at Glenlogan Park stud. Typhoon Tracy's name comes from the descructive, Cyclone Tracy that struck Darwin in 1974, and links names found in her pedigree.

In her first season of racing as a three-year-old in 2008/09, Typhoon Tracy won all of her five starts, ending with her first Group One win in the Coolmore Classic at Rosehill. Returning as a four-year-old against male horses, she was placed in the J.J. Liston Stakes and Makybe Diva Stakes before an 8th placing in the Underwood Stakes over 1800m. Dropped back in distance and to mares races, she won her final two races in the spring, including another Group One in the Myer Classic at Flemington. Her autumn 2010 campaign started with three successive Group One wins: the C.F Orr Stakes, Futurity Stakes and the Queen Of The Turf Stakes, before failing in the Doncaster Mile. Those achievements saw her awarded the Australian Horse of the Year title. She run twice as a five-year-old, with a fourth placing in the Memsie Stakes and a second placing in the Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes.

Typhoon Tracy was named the 2010 Sky Racing World Australian Racehorse of the Year at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium. Following her second win of the C F Orr Stakes in February 2011, trainer Peter Moody surprisingly announced that Typhoon Tracy would be retired. On 13 August 2012 Vinery Stud confirmed that Typhoon Tracy died shortly after delivering her first foal when she collapsed. Nothing could be done to save the seven-year-old. Her foal, from the sire Street Cry, showed no ill effects before his mother's death. She was remembered as a horse with an incredible nature on and off the track. Whilst not showing the class of his mother, Last Typhoon did show ability with two wins and three placings from just 11 starts but his stellar pedigree held appeal.

RACE RECORD - 16:10-1-1

EARNINGS - A$1,995,100

Coolmore Classic (2009)

Myer Classic (2009)

C F Orr Stakes (2010, 2011)

Futurity Stakes (2010)

Queen Of The Turf Stakes (2010)