The International Racehorse Owners Network (IRON), headed by Muskoka Farm owner David Boehm, had its first big payday when two year-old I Am Invincible filly Cythera made a winning career debut in Saturday’s Listed Darley Lonhro Plate (1000m) at Randwick.
Ridden by Tommy Berry for Peter and Paul Snowden, Cythera held the brave Overshare filly Lady Laguna by a long head.
Cythera was a $420,000 purchase by IRON / George Moore Bloodstock from the Highgrove Stud draft at the 2021 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
She is one of the seven IRON purchases at the sale that came at a total spend of $2,785,000.
A ½ sister to G2 winner & sire Thronum, Cythera hangs on boldly to capture Listed @DarleyAus Lonhro Plate at @royalrandwick … the 75th SW for @yarramanpark's I Am Invincible. Cythera was sold by Highgrove Stud to IRON & @Georgejmoore8 for $420k at the 2021 @inglis_sales Easter pic.twitter.com/qa5jApBaxb
— Aushorse (@Aushorse_TBA) February 5, 2022
“We were pretty confident she could run well,” Paul Snowden said.
“It’s her first time at the races and things can go wrong and she did a lot wrong to tell you the truth.
“I was glad when Hughie (Bowman on Spacewalk) kicked up and gave us something to chase because she is still very new, and you saw her idle down late when she did hit the front.
“She’s got the grouse attitude and obviously plenty of class so that will take us a long way.
“She has still got a lot more to offer, this filly.
“You’ve just got to let her tell the story. There is still a bit of water to go under the bridge.
“I’m just ecstatic for the owners, Iron. It’s their first runner for us and it’s a winner, so they’ve got a very handy filly on their hands.”
Tommy Berry said the daughter of I Am Invincible has more to offer.
“She is a lovely filly. I really liked her off her trial,” Berry said
“It was a very good effort for her to come here off just one trial. Usually, Peter gives them a couple.
“She hasn’t been the one from day dot that jumped out of the ground and said this is going to be the best two-year-old, but she has been the horse that has kept improving. There is a lot of substance about her, she’s a lovely type, nice size.”
A half-sister to Group II MVRC Australia Stakes winner and Group I William Reid Stakes runner-up Thronum, Cythera is the sixth winner afrom as many to race out of the well bred imported mare Helena’s Secret (USA) and is her final foal.
Cythera becomes the 75th stakes winner for I Am Invincible, who may be on an unstoppable roll to his first Champion Australian Sire title.
