News - I AM INVINCIBLE (AUS)
The opening session of Magic Millions 2019 proved a good one for Yarraman Park who sold all 12 yearlings consigned for $5,040,000 to be the leading vendor by aggregate.
A brilliant Randwick victory on Saturday for promising I Am Invincible three year-old Ljungberg will not entice connections to chase the lure of the rich Magic Millions 3YO Guineas despite the withdrawal of the favourite for that race in Native Soldier due to injury.
A year after he made a hasty exit from the Philippines to Hawaii on the same private jet as President Ferdinand Marcos, Eduardo Cojuangco received some much-needed good news from Australia.
Winning trainer and jockey combination Lloyd Kennewell and Joe Bowditch have enjoyed the highs of Group I racing with their outstanding I Am Invincible mare Viddora and have a new star on the rise by the same sire in exciting prospect Jedastar, who won brilliantly on debut at Flemington on New Year’s Day.
Another Saturday and another stakes double to I Am Invincible whose seasonal tally of 19 far outstrips his nearest rival High Chaparral (IRE) on nine.
Yarraman Park’s exceptional sire I Am Invincible is powering towards the end of 2018 with 12 winners in the past seven days and 39 in the past 30, the Canterbury meeting on Friday night delivering him with two smart three year-old winners that both have siblings to be offered at the 2019 Magic Millions.
Talented Tasmanian trained I Am Invincible sprinter I’m Wesley made it back to back wins in the $100,000 Listed Conquering Stakes on Wednesday evening at Launceston.
Yarraman Park Stud’s unstoppable I Am Invincible took his seasonal stakes tally to 17 when Illustrious Lad returned from two years in the wilderness in Saturday’s Listed City Of Marion Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville.
Yarraman Park’s I Am Invincible is doing some amazing things this season and is now the first sire to crack a century of winners since August 1 with three winners on Friday giving him 101 in total.
Yarraman Park’s rising super sire I Am Invincible has a stunning array of talented sprinters running for him this season, but will be without his star filly Pure Elation for the autumn carnivals.
The $75,000 Max Lees Classic for two year-olds at Newcastle on Sunday was won by the red hot favourite Strasbourg, a $750,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the Yarraman Park draft.
Spritely seven year-old I Am Invincible gelding Voodoo Lad was always going to be ridden cold from an outside gate in the $1million Group I WATC Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot on Saturday and flew home from the clouds for hometown hero Damien Oliver to score a crowd pleasing victory.
Opening her account with a dazzling debut victory at Doomben on Saturday was I Am Invincible filly Vincere Volare, a $300,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the Yarraman Park draft for Aquis Master Syndicate / Tony Gollan Racing.
Trainer Mick Price and Victorian based breeder Bill Frost celebrated on Saturday with the win of Steal My Kisses in the Listed Merson Cooper Stakes, and rightly so with bigger plans now on the table for the smart debutant.
Talented Tasmanian trained sprinter I'm Wesley made it back to back wins in the $100,000 Listed Launceston Newmarket Handicap on Wednesday evening giving his sire I Am Invincible his 15th stakes-winner of the season, that's seven more than the next best sire High Chaparral (IRE)!.
The start of the new season has brought a fresh round of success for this well-established stallion, but it's a new level of success and worth investigating given his stock will be plentiful and in hot demand at the 2019 yearling sales.
The most represented sire at the 2019 Magic Millions with 61 entries, I Am Invincible showed why he is hotter than hot when reeling off a trans-Tasman stakes treble on Saturday highlighted by a Group I win in the New Zealand One Thousand Guineas at Riccarton for exciting filly Media Sensation.
Visiting northern filly Media Sensation shrugged off a chequered trip to Christchurch to claim her maiden Group One victory in Saturday’s Gavelhouse,com New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m).
The Listed Merson Cooper Stakes has a rich heritage in kick-starting the careers of future top-liners and the first starter Steal My Kisses fits the profile.
Astute Randwick trainer Les Bridge is never without a good horse and produced a smart maiden winner at Canterbury on Friday night by leading sire I Am Invincible.