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I Am Invincible out to Break Juvenile Group 1 Hoodoo with Sires' Victory Mary O’Neill talks us Read Tomorrow's Issue For: through Stakes results and replays Newgate’s What's On Inglis Easter Stakes races: Randwick (NSW) - draft Doncaster Mile (Gr 1, 1600m), T J Smith Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m), Australian Derby Vendor Profile | Page 15 (Gr 1, 2400m), Inglis Sires’ (Gr 1, 1400m), Saturday, April 6, 2019 Chairman’s Quality (Gr 2, 2600m), Adrian Knox Stakes (Gr 3, 2000m), Kindergarten I Am Invincible out to Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m), P J Bell Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m), Carbine Club Stakes (Gr 3, 1600m) - Caulfield (VIC) - Anniversary break juvenile Group 1 Vase (Listed, 1400m) - Toowoomba (QLD) - Weetwood Handicap (Listed, 1200m) hoodoo with Sires’ victory - Ascot (WA) - Karrakatta Plate (Gr 2, 1200m), Old Comrade Stakes (Listed, Yarraman Park Stud-based sire also has Danehill 1600m) - Te Aroha (NZ) - NZ Thoroughbred and Snitzel’s record in sight Breeders’ Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) - Riccarton Park (NZ) - Easter Cup (Listed, 1600m), Airfreight Stakes (Listed, 1600m) Metropolitan meetings: Randwick (NSW), Caulfield (VIC), Morphettville (SA), Ascot (WA) Race meetings: Kembla Grange (NSW), Taree (NSW), Wellington (NSW), Mansfield (VIC), Werribee (VIC), Cairns (QLD), Gold Coast (QLD), Toowoomba (QLD), Mount Barker (WA), Launceston (TAS), Riccarton Park (NZ), Te Aroha (NZ) International meetings: Macau (MAC) International Group races: Santa Anita (US) - Santa Anita Handicap (Gr 1, 10f), Santa Anita Derby (Gr 1, 9f), Santa Anita Oaks (Gr 1, 8.5f) - Aqueduct (US) - Carter Handicap (Gr 1, 7f) - Keeneland (US) - Ashland Stakes (Gr 1, 8.5f), Madison Stakes (Gr 1, 7f) I Am Invincible YARRAMAN PARK STUD Invincible, who could become Australia’s By Tim Rowe most expensive advertised stallion in 2019 Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) is on after beginning his career at $11,000, has two the verge of matching the record held contenders in the ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes in by champion sires Danehill (Danzig) Loving Gaby and Strasbourg. and Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) and The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace- Ithe rags-to-riches stallion could also bring trained Loving Gaby ($4.40), who won the MRC up his maiden Group 1 two-year-old winner Chairman’s Stakes (Gr 3, 1000m) on debut, is should one of his juveniles win today’s Inglis’ best favoured to achieve the Group 1 milestone Sales Talk | Page 11 Sires (registered as Sires’ Produce Stakes) for her sire but it is Strasbourg who could see We talk to vendors at (Gr 1, 1400m). I Am Invincible draw level with Danehill and the Inglis sales complex Yarraman Park Stud’s brilliant sire I Am Snitzel. Continued on page 2>> | 1 | Brought to you by I Am Invincible out to break juvenile Group 1 hoodoo with Sires’ victory << Continued from page 1 Should the Peter and Paul Snowden- trained Strasbourg ($26) cause an upset, the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale graduate will also see I Am Invincible reach 26 individual stakes winners this season. That figure is the same as the record held by Danehill (2001-02) and equaled by his Arrowfield Stud-based champion grandson Snitzel 15 years later in 2016-17. BEST OF Strasbourg, who won impressively at his first start in the Max Lees Classic (900m) last December at Newcastle, is backing up in the Sires’ after finishing runner- LUCK up to the re-opposing Bellevue To the Magic Millions graduates Hill (Pierro) ($7.50) in last week’s Schweppervescence (registered running in this weekend’s group races as T L Bailleu Stakes) (Gr 3, RANDWICK (ATC) Rocknavar ..........Coolmore Stud 1400m) at Rosehill. Romani Girl ......... Westbury Stud SIRES’ PRODUCE STKS GR1 Etheridge .............Amarina Farm The potential Group 1 Dubious ................Kitchwin Hills breakthrough for I Am Invincible Rome ................. Bhima T’breds PJ BELL STKS GR3 Harry Mitchell INGLIS Spring Loaded .... Arrowfield Stud Eawase .......Strawberry Hill Stud comes on the eve of next week’s Bullet Fly .........Musk Creek Farm Madam Rouge .......Widden Stud Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, where he has 31 of the 450 lots Into the Abyss ..........Vinery Stud TJ SMITH STKS GR1 She’s Furline .................Mill Park catalogued for the blue riband auction. Redzel ................. Marquee Stud Invictus Salute .......Kitchwin Hills “He has proven to be a very versatile stallion. He gets very good two- Santa Ana Lane ... Patinack Farm Pierata ..................Kitchwin Hills ASCOT (PERTH) year-olds but he also gets horses who train on,” Yarraman Park Stud’s Champagne Cuddles ....Turangga KARRAKATTA PLATE GR2 Harry Mitchell said from Inglis’ Riverside Stables yesterday. Farm Jericho Missile.... Maluka T’breds Sunlight .................Widden Stud “That is his beauty - they are not just two-year-olds. But he is the Divide the Sea .............. Western Breeders Alliance leading sire of two-year-old winners and two-year-old stakes winners DONCASTER MILE GR1 Eckstein ...................Vinery Stud Dig Deep ....... Gold Front T’breds this year. Fundamentalist ............ Holbrook Pure Dynamite.. Touchstone Farm “To tick that box off on the big ones (would be fantastic). Oohood T’breds Miss West Coast ....... Mogumber Park went very close last year, Loving Gaby didn’t get a lot of luck in the Blue KINDERGARTEN STKS GR3 Niccovi ........... Touchstone Farm Diamond but you have got to get over the line first. All Cylinders ......... Baramul Stud Mia Dolce .......Western Breeders Cardiff ..............Arawata B’stock Alliance “We are looking forward to the Sires’ and hoping he can do it.” Not Feint Hearted ..... Misty Valley Spacegirl................Taunton Vale Even if Strasbourg does not win the $1 million T’breds Powderbelle ......Alwyn Park Stud Evening Slippers .. Arrowfield Stud race Mitchell is quietly confident that I Am TE AROHA (NZ) CARBINE CLUB STKS GR3 Invincible, whose service fee is set to increase Fun Fact ............ Edinburgh Park NZ T’BRED BREEDERS STKS from $192,500 (inc GST) this year, can Agassi ................Coolmore Stud GR1 Volpe Veloce ........Newgate Farm match and even set a new benchmark ADRIAN KNOX STKS GR3 before the season ends on July 31. Maracaibo ......... Arrowfield Stud TURFFONTEIN (STH Amangiri ...............Kitchwin Hills “We have only got one more stakes AFRICA) winner to go and that will equal Snitzel SYCAMORE SPRINT GR3 San Fermin ........ Arrowfield Stud and Danehill’s record of stakes winners in a year at 26. He has HE HAS PROVEN got 25 at the moment,” he said. TO BE A VERY “There are a lot of stakes races VERSATILE in Adelaide and Brisbane to come, so in all probability, he is going STALLION. HE GETS to break Danehill and Snitzel’s VERY GOOD TWO- record, which is something we YEAR-OLDS BUT HE would be incredibly proud about because it is a fair achievement for ALSO GETS HORSES a horse who started from humble www.magicmillions.com.au WHO TRAIN ON beginnings.” Continued on page 4>> | 2 | Brought to you by There are eight juvenile races worth $1 million or more in 2019. In the past 20 years all but six of the 120 winners of the Magic Millions 2YO Classic, Blue Diamond, Golden Slipper, Sires’ Produce, Champagne Stakes, and the JJ Atkins were bred in Australia. That’s a success rate of 95%. It pays to buy Australian. Aushorse.com.au I Am Invincible out to break juvenile Group 1 hoodoo with Sires’ victory Harry Mitchell INGLIS << Continued from page 2 I Am Invincible’s current crop of yearlings were conceived on a $55,000 (inc GST) service fee before his racecourse success and sales ring popularity demanded his price be increased in both 2017 and 2018. Some of the rising 15-year-old stallion’s best yearlings from his 2017-born crop will be on offer at Riverside Stables and Mitchell believes I Am Invincible can continue his remarkable ascension up the leading sires’ table. “There are some very nice I Am Invincibles here and for a horse who has already thrown 25 stakes winners this year, he is going to be in hot demand,” he said. “When you are breeding out of outstanding mares, maybe the horses have slightly better actions. “He is an upgrader, he can throw a great type out of an average mare, but for any stallion I think it helps when you are covering A grade mares which he is now. “The mares he has got this year is incredible.” As for Mitchell’s confidence about either Loving Gaby or Strasbourg winning the Sires’ today, a drying THERE ARE SOME surface at Randwick would increase his optimism. It was VERY NICE I AM yesterday rated as a Soft 7 after INVINCIBLES HERE escaping the majority of the rain AND FOR A HORSE that fell around Sydney. “We are looking forward WHO HAS ALREADY to Loving Gaby or Strasbourg THROWN 25 STAKES running well tomorrow. I am a bit WINNERS THIS YEAR, worried about the wet track,” he HE IS GOING TO BE IN said. “We just hope the rain stops. HOT DEMAND I don’t think they are as effective on heavy ground myself.” | 4 | Brought to you by SIRE OF WINNERS WINNERS NO S TALLION HAS EVER SIRED MOR E WINNERS THA N MORE THAN RE ADY BY STAKES WINNERS STAKES WINNERS TOP 5 SI RE W ORLDWIDE BY S W’ERS FEE $66,000 (inc GST) Morning Briefing | sponsored by Westbury Stud | 6 | Saturday, April 6, 2019 in the morning and that might ultimately Australia determine what happens but, at the Sunlight likely for TJ Smith moment, I think it would be a seven or an Having walked the Randwick track eight and if no rain came, it could be a six.” yesterday, Tony McEvoy is leaning towards running three-time Group 1 winner Snowdens launch Sunlight (Zoustar) in the TJ Smith Stakes three-pronged Sires’ raid (Gr 1, 1200m) at Randwick today. McEvoy The Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) has walked the Randwick track late on Friday been a happy hunting ground for Peter and morning and although he was getting a fair Paul Snowden and they are hoping their luck Paul and Peter Snowden SPORTPIX soaking, the ground was still firm enough continues when they field three runners in for the filly to take her place in the lucrative today’s $1 million race.
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