News - I AM INVINCIBLE (AUS)
Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week including a second win for million dollar baby, Billiondollarbaby, so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.
Placed behind outstanding colts Acrobat and Stay Inside at her first two starts, I Am Invincible filly Ashema broke the ice for Annabel Neasham at Randwick on Thursday when saluting over 1100m.
Four year-old I Am Invincible mare California Zimbol is a very good fresh horse and she showed it again at Rosehill on Saturday when resuming from a spell to win the Group III ATC Maurice McCarten Stakes (1100m).
The former Toby Edmonds-trained flyer Houtzen had her first foal, a colt by Curlin, at Stonestreet Farm, Kentucky.
The Inglis Premier Yearling Sale was quickly into top gear on Monday morning with a Vinery Stud consigned colt by champion sire I Am Invincible selling for $700,000.
A journey that started 11 years ago resulted today with victory in the $500,000 Inglis Dash at Flemington for untapped 3YO filly Capriccio.
In recent years, the Group II ATC Silver Slipper (1100m) has proven a valuable guide to the Golden Slipper with the race run at Rosehill on Saturday being won by expensive I Am Invincible colt Home Affairs carrying the Coolmore navy blue.
A six lengths win by a four-year-old daughter of I Am Invincible making her career debut; a five and three-quarter lengths triumph for an Irish-bred son of Fastnet Rock on his introduction to Australia; and an emotional win for a five-year-old gelding having his first start in 123 weeks, just some of the highlights from an intriguing Thursday night meeting at Pakenham Park.
The five-year-old mare Prophet's Thumb completed a stakes three-timer for Jamie Kah, a double for Anthony and Sam Freedman and a double for I Am Invincible when capturing the Group II Schweppes Rubiton Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield.
Five wins from seven starts is indicative of La Mexicana’s fierce will to win. The heavily backed daughter of I Am Invincible needed to call on all her courage to edge out Malicorne in Saturday’s Group III Kevin Hayes Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.
When astute Randwick trainer Les Bridge has a big opinion of a debut winner we all want to know a bit more.
It is another sensational day of action for the two-year-olds on Saturday with the nominal Golden Sipper favourite Enthaar dominating the betting in the Group III Chairman's Stakes at Caulfield while Rosehill hosts intriguing renewals of the Group III Widden Stakes and Group III Canonbury Stakes.
The Magic Millions Yearling Sale produced it’s first seven figure filly on Thursday, but it was not without it’s drama as the full sister to Loving Gaby initially left the ring unsold.
Godolphin made their first purchase at the 2021 Magic Millions Yearling Sale on Wednesday when outlaying $900,000 for a cracking I Am Invincible filly from former brilliant sprinting filly Eloping.
After the first 50 lots of the 2021 Magic Millions Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast on Tuesday it was Attunga Stud’s I Am Invincible colt from Zighy Bay (USA) that was setting the pace when knocked down to Waller Racing/ Mulcaster Bloodstock for $800,000.
As we head into the sales season every yearling buyer thinks they know what they are looking for, but do they? This new Breednet innovation seeks to shed light on what the best progeny of a sire looked like as yearlings so we can maybe learn a lesson going forward, this time we look at I Am Invincible.
Yarraman Park Stud’s champion I Am Invincible had his second winner in two days in Japan when Top Star Sun steamrolled over a field of seventeen debutants in a 1400m Newcomers race at Hanshin on Sunday.
It was a Boxing Day to savour for Robert and Barbara McClure’s Morning Rise Stud with their homebred Splendoronthegrass winning at Eagle Farm before Splendoronthegrass’ half-sister Jazz Etude made a winning debut in Japan.
Champion sire I Am Invincible added a promising new stakes-winner to his tally in New Zealand on Boxing Day when lightly raced four year-old mare Vamos Bebe scored a dominant win in the Listed Hallmark Stud Sprint (1200m) at Ellerslie.
Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.