June 23 – Nothing attracts broodmare owners like winners and Australia’s leading first season sire I Am Invincible has not been short of those this season with Yarraman Park now inundated with bookings for our superstar young sire.
“He’s been full for a while now as you would expect given what he’s done this season,” said Harry Mitchell.
“Nobody could have predicted how well he’s gone, but I will say one thing, I’ve never had a sire stamp them like he does.”
I Am Invincible has posted 15 winners from 38 runners in Australia and New Zealand, his progeny headed by Group II winning and Group I placed Brazen Beau, Group III winner Vinnie Eagle and stakes-winners Leeds, Fuld’s Bet and Bassillique, not to mention stakes-placed Tetsuko, Silent Whisper and Uratta Belle.
And then there is Scone Inglis Challenge winner Voodoo Lad, Wellington Boot winner I Am Snippety and metropolitan winners Illustrious Lad, Lexgetreddy, I Am the General and I Am Impressed!
I Am Invincible has covered a bigger book in each of his four seasons at stud at a fee of $11,000, covering 602 mares in total.
A fee increase this year to $27,500 seems more than reasonable given his success on the track and in the sale ring where his progeny have sold for up to $440,000.
“He will cover some really serious mares this year with confirmed bookings including the dams of Group I winners Sizzling and Ruud Awakening as well as our best mares including Oceanfast, the dam of Alinghi,” Mitchell added.
The success of I Am Invincible should come as no real surprise given he is a son of outstanding European sire Invincible Spirit (IRE), the sire of this year’s dominant three year-old colt Kingman, winner of the Group I St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot last week.
Anyone who saw Kingman on the Royal Ascot coverage, would have been struck by his good looks and they are reminiscent of his sire and also what we see in I Am Invincible.
It’s class with a capital C.
Yarraman Park’s associate sires Hinchinbrook and Magic Albert will stand alongside I Am Invincible this year, the former booked out at a fee of $16,500 and the latter looking value at $13,750 as a proven outcross sire of 18 stakes-winners, four of them Group I winners.
Magic Albert is a prolific source of winners and cracked his 100th winner for the season at Gunnedah on Monday when Café Fouquet saluted for Rod Northam at her third start.
A three-quarter brother by Fastnet Rock to Snitzel, Hinchinbrook was warmly received at yearling sales this year and will have his first runners next season.
