A new record price for a yearling filly sold at Inglis Premier was set on Sunday when the Noorilim Park consigned I Am Invincible filly from Special Lover sold for $1.1million.

There have been several seven figure sales at Premier in recent years with a Written Tycoon colt from Gybe selling for $1.1million in 2021 and an I Am Invincible colt from Soorena selling for $1.4million in 2017, but she is the first filly to break the million dollar mark.

A half-sister to Group III MRC Blue Diamond Preview winner Miss Roseiano, she was purchased by Tony Fung Investments and is the third foal of stakes-placed Pins mare Special Lover, whose first two foals are winners.

It was a great result for Noorilim’s Glen and Peter Carrick and their team, headed by Operations Manager Chris Kent, who couldn’t contain his emotions after the sale.

“It’s unbelievable. I’m speechless,’’ Kent said.

“We had a plan, we thought we’d bring this filly here to stand out at the sale, support Oaklands and the Victorian breeders and I’m just so happy for the team.

“I’m just over the moon. She’s a lovely filly, we’re really proud we sold her here in Melbourne. This filly could have gone anywhere but we just thought ‘no, let’s make a name for ourselves down here in Melbourne and showcase her off’ and she’s done us really proud.

“I thought she could make between $600,000-$800,000 but that was just unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable.’’

TFI’s Sally Williams said the filly was “the kind of filly you dream of having in your colours’’.

“I saw her many times this week, she’s got even better throughout the week, she’s such a lovely mover, she didn’t get tired and she would have been such a busy filly during inspections,’’ Williams said.

“She would have been a standout in absolutely any sale in Australia this year. She’s beautiful, such a lovely athletic filly. You’d pay that for her at any sale all year. Fillies like this demand a premium because that’s what they are.

“Mr Fung thinks it’s very important to buy fillies like this with serious pedigrees to add to the racing team. We’re having a great season with our 2YO fillies and the Fung family are getting a lot of enjoyment out of it.’’

The star filly has a royal lineage coming from the famed Eight Carat (GB) family with her dam Special Lover, a grand-daughter of Group I winner Diamond Lover, this branch of the family producing Group I winners Don Eduardo, Tristalove, Viking Ruler and Viscount.

Special Lover was bought as a yearling at Karaka by Noorilim Park’s Peter Carrick in 2014 for $160,000 from the Cambridge Stud draft and raced just four times before retiring a maiden, but she gained valuable Black Type with a third place finish in the Listed SAJC Hill Smith Stakes.

Her first two foals sold for $240,000 (Easy Single by Not a Single Doubt) and $300,000 (Miss Roseiano by Exceed and Excel) with this filly upping the ante considerably to fulfill the prophecy of Sir Patrick Hogan.

The late Sir Patrick Hogan told Peter Carrick after he purchased Special Lover that she would be a mare that would one day pay for his farm and he’s not been wrong!

Special Lover had no foal last spring after missing to Snitzel, but is now in foal again to I Am Invincible, who also had a filly from Group I ATC Australian Oaks winner Unforgotten sell for $650,000 to Sheamus Mills Bloodstock and a colt from Petty Cury sell for $500,000 to the Rosemont Alliance/ Suman Hedge/ Moody Racing.