Yarraman Park Stud has trimmed the masking payment of elite stallion I Am Invincible , with the three-time Australian champion to face the upcoming season at AU$220,000 (approx. US$141,169).
Returning the headline act to his 2021 perch is one in all a number of pragmatic decisions the stud has made with its 2025 charges, with the “financial local weather” one of many components underpinning the measured method.
Regardless of having his payment decreased from AU$275,000, there was no let up in I Am Invincible’s type. He’s the sire of 117 stakes winners, together with 17 who’ve struck on the highest degree. His most up-to-date group 1 scorer arrived as just lately as Saturday when Appeal Stone made her top-flight breakthrough within the Robert Sangster Stakes (G1) at Morphettville.
The 4-year-old filly is one in all 13 Australian stakes winners sired by I Am Invincible through the 2024-25 marketing campaign. Others embrace the unbeaten juvenile Vinrock, who was final seen taking out the Inglis Sires’ (G1). That banner success contributed to I Am Invincible main the 2-year-old sire standings by variety of stakes winners (5).
Regardless of this present run of success, Yarraman Park director Harry Mitchell mentioned it had at all times been the plan to trim I Am Invincible’s payment as soon as he entered the autumn of his stallion profession. Join BloodHorse Day by day
“He is 20 now and we’re not chasing an enormous variety of bookings,” mentioned Mitchell. “We simply thought, being his age now, we would carry his payment again just a little bit. The identical folks use him just about yearly, and to make him just a little bit cheaper is, I believe, extra of a ‘thanks’ to them actually as folks have been very loyal. I do not suppose it will’ve mattered what we stood him at although — clearly he is had two group 1 winners within the final couple of weeks so he is having a fairly good season.”
Mitchell continued: “They did this with Snitzel after they dropped him for a few years, and we simply thought we would relatively choose the mares we get just a little bit, purely due to his age. We at all times thought we would carry him again barely, and possibly we should not have, however that is the choice we have made and we will follow it.”
The son of Invincible Spirit was reported to be in tremendous type throughout his autumn break, and is predicted to cowl a e-book of “round 130” mares later this yr.
“His fertility has been good; he actually hasn’t deviated a lot within the final ten years,” mentioned Mitchell. “Every little thing else about him is nice. He is extremely nicely, he is like a 12-year-old. He is a really completely satisfied, wholesome horse.”
