I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) will officially win his third Australian champion sires’ title on Wednesday evening.
The Yarraman Park Stud stalwart, whose rise from relative obscurity to be at the top of the sire charts, joins Redoute’s Choice (Danehill) as a modern day champion with three sires’ titles since the turn of the century.
Redoute’s Choice’s Arrowfield Stud-based son Snitzel, who will enter his 19th season at stud on September 1, won four consecutive Australian general sires’ premierships from 2016-17 through to 2019-20.
The recently retired $6.6 million mare Imperatriz contributed $5.26 million towards I Am Invincible’s record breaking tally of more than $32 million on progeny earnings since August 1, 2023, but she wasn’t alone.
There were 17 other stakes winners (two of them in New Zealand including Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) winning colt Move To Strike) for the almost completed season including exciting Group 3 winner Estriella and high-class colt Bodyguard who could make amends in the new season for his controversial scratching from the Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) when favourite earlier this year.
Yarraman Park’s Arthur Mitchell marvelled at the dominance of I Am Invincible this season and he believes that the champion sire can continue on his winning run in 2024-25, where he will stand for a fee of $302,500 (inc GST), up from $275,000 last year.
“The whole farm’s over the moon with the way he’s gone again,” Mitchell said.
“I do believe that, because he’s well down on the two-year-old list, that a lot of them have been looked after and given a bit more time, so hopefully that’ll pay off in their three-year-old and older careers.”
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