Cover image courtesy of Yarraman Park
Written by Bren O'Brien
Yarraman Park's I Am Invincible is closing in on becoming the first stallion ever to produce 200 winners in Australia in a single season.
The star stallion recently surpassed his own record for number of individual Australian winners in a season with 188 so far in 2020/21, having had 183 winners in 2019/20 and a previous record of 184 winners in 2018/19.
| 2013/14 (117) | 45 | 15 | 20 | 3 | $1,161,630 |
| 2014/15 (30) | 107 | 59 | 98 | 3 | $4,117,965 |
| 2015/16 (21) | 176 | 88 | 143 | 6 | $5,258,268 |
| 2016/17 (4) | 225 | 145 | 274 | 11 | $12,195,018 |
| 2017/18 (2) | 275 | 158 | 273 | 19 | $15,920,285 |
| 2018/19 (2) | 336 | 184 | 301 | 28 | $17,758,668 |
| 2019/20 (2) | 344 | 183 | 311 | 13 | $15,865,146 |
| 2020/21 (3) | 341 | 188 | 290 | 12 | $14,051,801 |
| Total | 720 | 554 | 1710 | 57 | $86,328,781 |
Table: I Am Invincible's season-by-season record in Australia
The 188th winner for the stallion for the season came this Wednesday on the Kensington track at Randwick with the victory of the Kris Lees-trained Kinloch. The record breaking 185th Australian winner for the season came on May 30 when the Alison Smith-trained Gorgeous Am I saluted at Wellington.
Kinloch | Image courtesy of Ashlea Brennan
I Am Invincible was the leading Australian sire by winners in each of the past two seasons and is well on track to claiming that honour for a third straight season, some nine clear of Written Tycoon who has had a career-best 179 winners.
With six weeks remaining in the 2020/21 season, I Am Invincible has 12 more Australian winners to find if he is to become the first stallion in history to break that 200-winner mark.
"With six weeks remaining in the 2020/21 season, I Am Invincible has 12 more Australian winners to find if he is to become the first stallion in history to break that 200-winner mark."
His 188 winners have won a combined 290 races from 341 runners, with 12 stakes winners for the season to date.
Of those winners, 13 have been 2-year-olds, 71 have been 3-year-olds and 104 have been four or older, with 100 winners from his colts and geldings and 88 from his fillies/mares.
His $14.05 million in progeny earnings this season is enough to have him third overall in the race to be crowned the Champion Sire, some $1.5 million behind Written Tycoon, who is in pole position to claim his first title. I Am Invincible has been runner-up behind Snitzel in the Champion Sire race for the past three completed seasons.
I Am Invincible | Standing at Yarraman Park
The son of Invincible Spirit (Ire), who will enter his 12th season at stud at Yarraman Park in 2021, also recently joined an elite selection of stallions to have had their progeny earnings pass $100 million, and he also recently had his 600th winner overall.
While it has been a record-breaking season in so many regards for I Am Invincible, he is yet to have an Australian Group 1 winner this campaign and with only one Group 1 remaining for the season, the Tatt's Tiara, it is likely to end up being the first season since 2015/16 where he hasn't had an elite success.
