Three-time reigning champion sire I Am Invincible has notched his 200th individual winner for the season with one of his most valuable daughters sold last year delivering the milestone.
Two-year-old I Am Invincible filly Kerber, a sister to Godolphin’s Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes and Newmarket Handicap winner In Secret, won Wednesday’s opening race at Canterbury at just her second start.
The Chris Waller-trained Kerber, who was taken to the early lead by jockey Jason Collett in the 1200m 2&3YO Fillies Maiden (1200m), was the first leg of a juvenile running double for the premier Sydney stable.
“She is very quick and it's great that she can utilise that speed because she had control of that race along the way out,” Collett told Sky Racing.
“There's definitely more to come as she’s still got a bit of growing up to do upstairs as she didn't really handle things going to the start and she shied badly and got herself quite wound up.
“She saw some cyclists going down the back track when I was turning around to go to the gates and it’s just little things like that, her mind's not completely on it yet.”
Owned by Ricky Surace’s B2B Thoroughbreds, $1.15 million filly Kerber had one start for trainer Ciaron Maher in the Listed Lonhro Plate in February.
With Kerber’s breakthrough, I Am Invincible holds a three-win lead over Zoustar for the Australian sires’ premiership by winners.
It is the third time I Am Invincible has sired 200 individual winners in Australia in a season and it betters his 2023/24 tally of 175.
Widden’s Zoustar will claim his first general sires’ title by prize money when the 2024/25 racing season ends on July 31 with progeny earnings of $26.1 million.
Pride Of Dubai, whose high-class mares Pride Of Jenni and Everest winner Bella Nipotina flew the flag for the Coolmore-based sire, is valiantly holding onto second with just a $50,000 buffer over I Am Invincible with a week to go of the racing year.
Another current two-year-old, the Matt Laurie-trained Vinrock, provided I Am Invincible with another milestone this season when the colt won the ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes victory at Randwick, the Yarraman Park stallion’s first Australian juvenile Group 1 winner.
Talented mare Charm Stone was the other Group 1 winner for I Am Invincible in 2024/25 when she won the Robert Sangster Stakes in Adelaide while I Am Me’s spring helped add more than $2 million to his progeny earnings.
Kerber, who was bred in partnership by Segenhoe Stud’s Kevin Maloney and Longwood Thoroughbreds’ Michael Christian out of their Group 3-winning mare Eloping, is the 14th individual two-year-old winner for I Am Invincible this season.
The filly was purchased by Belmont Bloodstock’s Damon Gabbedy at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale for the Suraces.
Kerber’s rising two-year-old sister by I Am Invincible, Secrets Within, was bought by Randwick trainer John Sargent and Byron Bay-based owner Ian Moses for $2.3 million at January’s Magic Millions.
Eloping has a weanling colt by I Am Invincible.
Entering his 16th season at stud this year, I Am Invincible stands at a fee of $220,000 (inc GST).
