News - I AM INVINCIBLE (AUS)
It’s the week before Christmas and the Yarraman Park team can rest easy before the holidays with images for their cracking Magic Millions 2023 consignment now online.
Progressive four year-old I Am Invincible mare Invincible Caviar is the best offspring to race from champion mare Black Caviar after posting her fourth win from six starts at Flemington on Saturday, but the victory was not without it’s share of drama.
The Star Thoroughbreds colours were carried to victory at Canterbury on Friday night by a very impressive first starter by champion sire I Am Invincible.
As predicted last Sunday, Yarraman Park’s I Am Invincible is the first sire this season to crack 100 Australian winners with the Annabel Neasham trained four year-old gelding Ghostwriter winning on Thursday at Ipswich to clock up the milestone.
Yarraman Park’s I Am Invincible is poised to get his 100th Australian winner of the season this week and is on track to replicate the success of his record breaking season in 2020/2021 when he sired an Australian record of 208 winners.
The I Am Invincible colt Godfather made the first downpayment on his $1,100,000 purchase price when making a winning debut in Saturday’s Listed Eureka Stud Phelan Ready Stakes (1000m) at Eagle Farm.
Group One winner Imperatriz is on track to head to the Gr.1 Railway (1200m) at Te Rapa on New Year’s Day following her 850m trial at Te Awamutu on Tuesday.
I Am Invincible gelding Garibaldi has been racing very consistently since the start of the season and the Tony Gollan trained six year-old claimed his biggest prize to date when taking out the $200,000 Group III BRC George Moore Stakes (1200m) at Doomben on Saturday.
The juvenile maiden at Newcastle on Sunday was won by blue-blood I Am Invincible filly Blanc de Blanc, a three-quarter sister-in-blood to Group I ATC Flight Stakes winner Oohood.
Talented I Am Invincible stallion Minsk Moment has always shown glimmers of serious ability when trained by Chris Waller, but produced his first Black Type win in the care of new trainer Adam Durrant when taking out the Listed WATC Carbine Club of WA Stakes (1400m) at Ascot on Saturday.
A $1.2million I Am Invincible filly created a big impression at Sandown on Wednesday when bolting away to win by four lengths.
The Annabel Neasham-trained Holyfield stopped the clock at a track record 1,07,74 when leading home a 1-2 for I Am Invincible in Saturday’s Listed Aquis Stallions Keith Noud Quality (1200m) at Doomben.
Australian racing has been awash with million dollar races in recent months and the vast sums on offer can skew the sire tables to an extent so a look at the leading sires by stakes-winners list offers a different insight.
Two heats for juveniles were run at Randwick on Tuesday morning with the winners both coming from the Michael Freedman stable and they were a bargain priced colt by champion sire Exceed and Excel and a filly by I Am Invincible that is a three-quarter-sister-in-blood to a G1 winner.
Third in the Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes at Flemington when on debut, the $1,550,000 I Am Invincible filly Charm Stone made no mistake at start two in the Group III Darley Ottawa Stakes (1000m) at Flemington on Oaks Day.
I Am Invincible had an impressive debut winner at Ballarat on Monday with a Maher/Eustace trained filly which cost $800,000.
Group I racing at Flemington on Derby Day produced three Group I winners and all of them are new Group I winners, while we will also take a look at the $10million Golden Eagle with a kiwi bred runner taking the prize for the second year in a row.
Godolphin don’t have many horses by champion sire I Am Invincible in their powerful stable, but a filly they bought for $900,000 from Magic Millions last year has emerged as one of the best sprinting three year-olds in the country with a dominant win in the $2million Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Juvenile trials at Randwick on Friday and Doomben on Thursday produced some interesting winners with two heat winners for Trapeze Artist, a blue-blood I Am Invincible quinella and the first look at Isotope’s half-sister has us wanting to see more of her!
The Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes was won last year in explosive fashion by outstanding I Am Invincible colt Home Affairs, whose full brother was born at Torryburn Stud last week.