News - I AM INVINCIBLE (AUS)

The Group I ATC Golden Slipper produced a brilliant finish with the cream of the juvenile crop rising to the occasion and the top three in betting finding their way into the first four past the post, but the surprise packet in the first four was an I Am Invincible filly now undisputedly Australia’s best maiden.

The 2014 Group I MVRC William Reid Stakes was won by Australia’s hottest young sire in Spirit of Boom and the 2018 edition has given us another future sire prospect with victory going to the hugely talented I Am Invincible entire Hellbent.

Media Sensation made her own headline at Avondale on Friday with a dashing debut win.

With less than two weeks until the 2018 Golden Slipper it seems only fitting that the busiest sire in 2017 should in fact be a Golden Slipper winner.

Last seen finishing fourth in the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas, exciting I Am Invincible filly She's So High returned from a spell to score a resounding victory in the Listed VRC Incognitus Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.

Diminishing participation at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale in Victoria from major Hunter Valley vendors has not stopped Yarraman Park from being well rewarded at Oaklands this week with eight yearlings selling in Book One at an average $258,750.

Santos will give Gai Waterhouse her chance at a seventh Golden Slipper after he led home an I Am Invincible one-two in the Skyline Stakes Gr2 at Randwick on Saturday.

Back in May 1978, an imported mare named Lady Upstage (GB) made an inauspicious debut over 1200 metres at Randwick beating just two of her seven opponents home.

Spendthrift Farm’s I Am Invincible colt Overshare held the challenge of his Hawkes Racing stablemate Wild Heart to claim Saturday’s Group III Zeditave Stakes at Caulfield.

Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott unleashed a serious Golden Slipper prospect at Randwick on Saturday with I Am Invincible colt Santos taking out the highly competitive $150,000 ATC Pierro Plate.

Fairhill Farm principal Mike O’Donnell was lost for words when realising Fiesta’s win in the Group 3 Widden Stakes at Rosehill had earned him a $100,000 bonus.

Bred and offered for sale by Mike and Debbie O’Donnell’s Fairhill Farm, two year-old I Am Invincible filly Fiesta gave champion trainer Chris Waller a juvenile stakes double at Rosehill on Saturday when she followed the earlier success of her stablemate Performer in the Group III ATC Canonbury Stakes to win the Group III ATC Widden Stakes.

It looked for all the world that Eurozone was about to register his first winner when the Darren Weir-trained debutant Krone put her head in front in the closing stages of Friday night’s Indoor Sports Vic Plate (1000m) at Moonee Valley, but the I Am Invincible filly Viennese Star climbed off the canvas to win by a short-head.

Champion trained Darren Weir featured at Sandown on Wednesday with two winners by Yarraman Park’s super sire I Am Invincible, one of them a full brother to dual Group I winner and budding sire Brazen Beau.

Five year-old I Am Invincible gelding Most Important has been racing consistently over the summer and scored a resounding win in the Listed $100,000 Sunshine Coast Cup on Saturday.

At the recent Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, I Am Invincible had three $1 million plus yearlings highlighted by the sales-topping $2 million colt out of Tai Tess, while 37 of his yearling averaged $478,649.

Chris Waller had his Breeders Plate winner Performer stepping out at the Rosehill trials on Monday morning, but with six juvenile heats he was not the only winner of interest from the champion trainer.

Any questions about Viddora’s (I Am Invincible – Snow Flight) status as Australia’s sprint queen were answered in emphatic style at the Gold Coast on Saturday where the star mare scored an effortless win in the $1 million Harrolds Magic Millions Snippets (1200m).

Talented mare Invincibella ($8) shrugged her bridesmaid tag in emphatic fashion on Saturday with a deserved victory in the $1 million It’s Live! In Qld Magic Millions Fillies & Mares (1300m) at the Gold Coast on Saturday.

Yarraman Park put some fireworks into the 2018 Magic Millions Yearling Sale on Thursday when their I Am Invincible colt from Tai Tai Tess sold for $2million setting a new record for his sire.