The
2021-22 Racing Season concluded last Sunday and there were some
fascinating results during the season.
I AM INVINCIBLE Finally Secures Illusive Champion Sire Title:
I AM INVINCIBLE - Champion Sire
Finally, it’s happened,
I Am Invincible has been
crowned CHAMPION AUSTRALIAN SIRE for the 2021-22 Racing Season.
I Am Invincible got the premiership he seemed destined for over the past few seasons when he prevailed in a gripping tussle with Coolmore Studs
So You Think.
To atone for
four consecutive runner-up finishes, I Am Invincible’s progeny had amassed
$19,844,276, this season, which was just over $500,000 in front of,
So You Think.
I Am Invincible had
finished runner-up to
Snitzel in 2018, 2019 and 2020 then had to settle for another
runner-up position in 2021 to Written Tycoon.
While it is
I Am Invincible's first win in the General Sires Premiership (which is decided on prizemoney), it is the
fourth year in a row he has had the most winners having produced 313 wins from 185 horses.
Last year he broke his own record for most individual winners in a season when
208 of his progeny won a race on Australian tracks.
Four of those 313 races in his premiership season were Group 1 events, headlined by
Home Affairs' wins in the Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) and Black Caviar Lightning (1000m), while
Marabi won the Oakleigh Plate (1100m) and
Lombardo took out The Goodwood (1200m).
His daughter
Imperatriz also won twice at 1600m at Group 1 level in New Zealand.
They are results that have led to
I Am Invincible becoming renowned as Australia's most commercial stallion, with yearlings grossing more than
$51 million earlier this year, including the $1.9m sale topper at Magic Millions in January and a $2m yearling at Inglis Easter.
I Am Invincible stands for a Service Fee of $247,500 this season.
It also emphasises what a shrewd decision it was from the Mitchell's to buy a half-share from Ray Gall, who raced
I Am Invincible and remains involved.
There was a degree of risk associated with that given I Am Invincible, who won five of 13 starts, didn't exactly boast the required profile that would have had breeders falling over themselves to support him.
His most famous run came in defeat – when second to Takeover Target in the Group 1 The Goodwood – with his biggest wins only at Group 3 level in the D.C. McKay Stakes (1100m) and Listed Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m).
But being
by Invincible Spirit, a son of Green Desert, who won the Group 1 Haydock Sprint (1200m), was something the Mitchell’s at Yarraman Park thought could appeal to Australian breeders.
Out of the
Canny Lad mare Cannarelle,
I Am Invincible stood for just $11,000 his first four seasons, rose to $27,500 in 2014, had his fee doubled the following year, doubled again to $110,000 in 2017, jumped to $192,500 in 2018, before commanding $247,500 for the first time in 2019.
In addition to last season’s Group 1 stars he is also the sire of
Brazen Beau, I Am A Star, Viddora, Hellbent, Oohood, Voodoo Lad, Invincibella and
Loving Gaby are among the Group 1 winners who preceded his 2021/22 elite-level winners.
I Am Invincible turned 18 on Monday, and is as popular as ever despite returning to his
$247,500 fee and Mitchell is hopeful he has many more seasons to add to his legacy.
"We've restricted his book a little bit now because he is getting older, he's turning 18, so he's not a young horse but he looks great, is really healthy and we're delighted with him," Mitchell said.
SO YOU THINK - Runner-up
SNITZEL - 3rd Place
So You Think who finished runner-up almost $1.5m clear of four-time champion stallion Snitzel who was third.
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - Champion First Crop Sire
Whilst Newgate's
Russian Revolution was crowned Champion First Season Sire, a first for a son of
Snitzel.
MAURICE - Champion Second Crop Sire
Japanese star
Maurice was a dominant leader of the
Champion Second Season Sire award for Arrowfield Stud.
REDOUTE'S CHOICE - Champion Broodmare Sire
Whilst the late
Redoute's Choice was again Champion Broodmare Sire.
2021-22 SIRES PREMIERSHIP TABLES – FINAL STANDINGS / CATEGORIES:
* GENERAL SIRES – By Earnings = Top 30
* GENERAL SIRES – By Winners = Top 10
* FIRST CROP SIRES – By Earnings = Top 10
* FIRST CROP SIRES – By Winners = Top 10
* SECOND CROP SIRES – By Earnings = Top 10
* SECOND CROP SIRES – By Earnings = Top 10
* BROODMARE SIRES – By Winners = Top 10
GENERAL SIRES – By Earnings = Top 30
GENERAL SIRES – By Winners = Top 10
FIRST CROP SIRES – By Earnings = Top 10
FIRST CROP SIRES – By Winners = Top 10
SECOND CROP SIRES – By Earnings = Top 10
SECOND CROP SIRES – By Winners = Top 10
BROODMARE SIRES – By Earnings = Top 10
Dynamic Syndications currently have shares available in just 5 just turned 2yo's by the following TOP 10 SIRES of their peer groups:
1 x Top 10 FIFTH CROP SIRE
DUNDEEL x SPORT CHIC Filly with RICHARD & WILLIAM FREEDMAN
DUNDEEL
5th by Earnings & 3rd by Winners: 230 Runners 106 Winners 5 SW
3 x TOP 10 SECOND CROP SIRES
SHALAA x DARBY'S BID Colt with GERALD RYAN & STERLING ALEXIOU & ~ GERRY HARVEY
SHALAA
4th by Earnings & 2nd by Winners: 121 Runners, 53 Winners, 3 SW
AMERICAN PHAROAH x WAR HEROINE Colt with JASON DEAMER
AMERICAN PHAROAH
9th by Earnings & 8th by Winners: 85 Runners, 35 Winners, 3 SW
ASTERN x BETTER LIFE Colt with RICHARD & WILLIAM FREEDMAN
ASTERN
10th by Earnings & 6th by Winners: 93 Runners, 37 Winners, 1 SW
1 x FIRST CROP SIRE
JUSTIFY x TINGU Filly with CIARON MAHER & DAVID EUSTACE
JUSTIFY ~ America's Leading First Crop Sire:
15 Runners, 6 Winners, 2 SW
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