News - I AM INVINCIBLE (AUS)
A pool of prominent Kiwi owners have enjoyed a good payday when the Kris Lees-trained Kinloch took out the lucrative A$500,0000 Polytrack Provincial-Midway Championships Final (1400m) at Randwick on Saturday.
The regally-bred I Am Invincible filly Quraysha showed enough in Thursday’s win in a fillies and mares maiden plate over 1100m at Kilmore to indicate she has better races in her sights.
An amazing day at Riverside on the final day of Inglis Easter and happy people weren’t hard to find so Maree McEwan got talking.
Newgate Farm have enjoyed strong results at Inglis Easter and produced their jewel in the crown on Wednesday afternoon with the I Am Invincible filly from Group I winner Ruud Awakening selling for $1.7 million.
Tyreel Stud have achieved sale ring and racetrack success in recent years under the ownership of Linda and Laurence Monds, but soared to a new level at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale on Wednesday when selling the half-sister by I Am Invincible to Everest hero Classique Legend for $2million.
An exceptional opening day of the Easter Yearling Sale has seen a new Southern Hemisphere record set for an individual day’s aggregate as the surge for top quality bloodstock continued at Riverside.
Bred and retained to race by Cressfield, Stratum mare Egyptian Symbol was a wonderfully tough and talented campaigner on the track and her first foal proved a sale ring superstar when selling at Inglis Easter on Tuesday for $1.5million.
Yarraman Park’s I Am Invincible broke the ice for his first seven figure sale at Inglis Easter on Tuesday when his colt from Calming Influence made $1million for Bhima Thoroughbreds, who have been in the Group I groove as vendors in recent weeks having sold both Forbidden Love and Imperatriz.
Sunday after The Championships Saturday – Inglis Easter was packed and Maree McEwan was talking to some of the big players with their best horses heading in to what’s been a red hot 2022 market.
Progressive I Am Invincible gelding Lombardo claimed his second Black Type win at Morphettville on Saturday when taking out the Listed SAJC Manihi Classic (1100m).
The auction of Te Akau Racing’s Festivity (NZ) concluded on Friday night with Hunter Valley-based Yarraman Park Stud securing the stakes-winning daughter of their resident sire I Am Invincible for NZ$480,500.
The auction of Te Akau Racing’s Festivity, a stakes-winning daughter of I Am Invincible, is now live on Gavelhouse Plus with bidding set to close from 7pm (NZ time) on Friday.
Champion trainer Tony Gollan unleashed an exciting I Am Invincible two year-old colt at Sunshine Coast on Sunday that won as he pleased as an odds on favourite.
There were nine Group 1 races contested in Australasia since last week and five of the winners were scoring at the highest level for the first time with the Golden Slipper going to a horse with a double cross of Danehill for the third year in a row.
Australian bred three year-old I Am Invincible filly Imperatriz provided Te Akau Racing with yet another Group I victory when beating her stablemate On the Bubbles to win the Group I Levin Classic (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday.
We have launched the Breednet Blackbook – it’s free and easy to manage and you can track - Horses, Sires, Dams, Trainers, Jockeys and Nicks.
A homebred for Sir Owen Glenn, that was raised at Newgate Farm as is Saturday’s Group III ATC Pago Pago Stakes winner Rise of the Masses, talented I Am Invincible filly Queen Of The Ball now sits in seventh spot on the Order of Entry for the Golden Slipper after winning the Group III Canberra Black Opal Stakes (1200m) on Sunday.
The Premier Sale was another 2022 record breaker and Marie McEwan rounded out the final day with some of the big names.
Australian Studbook have today released official covering statistics for the 2021 breeding season and it’s always interesting to see what the market made of the most expensive sires in the land.
The Premier Sale has continued at pace with another day where buyers and sellers were buoyant and Maree McEwan spoke to some of them.