Vinnie continues record-breaking way as progeny pass $30m for season

I Am Invincible, on the cusp of being crowned champion stallion for the third successive year, has established a new seasonal earnings benchmark in Australian racing.

The Yarraman Park super sire’s progeny have so far won more than $30 million in 2023/24.

With a lead of close to $10 million over his closest rival and only two months of the season remaining, I Am Invincible is destined to claim Australia’s leading sire for the third straight year.

It will be the greatest season ever in terms of progeny earnings after I Am Invincible recently surpassed Snitzel’s record, which stood from the 2017/18 racing season at $29.2 million.

Star mare Imperatriz leads the way for his progeny with $5.3 million this season.

His other progeny to win more than $1 million in Australia this season include Attractable, I Am Me, In Secret, Hawaii Five Oh, King Of Sparta and Estriella.

“It’s been such a great journey watching on as I Am Invincible has broken record after record through his career,” Yarraman Park’s Arthur Mitchell said.

“To break through $30 million in Australian progeny earnings in one season is yet another remarkable achievement and one we are very proud of.”

I Am Invincible is also Australia’s leading sire this season on stakes winners with 15, while his progeny have won more stakes races, 28, than any other.

Our Champion Sire, I Am Invincible sets the bar when it comes to records. Setting a new benchmark of $30 million in Prizemoney for a single season!! pic.twitter.com/bHAsA3PuIO

— Yarraman Park Stud (@yarramanpark) May 28, 2024

Breaking the $30 million barrier is the latest in I Am Invincible’s remarkable career.

He is the only sire in Australian racing history to have more than 200 winners in a single season, having done that twice in 2022/23 (202) and 2020/21 (208).

His 338 total progeny wins in Australia, achieved last season, is also a record for any sire.
In 2018/19, I Am Invincible also set a record for most Australian stakes winners in a season with 28 to eclipse the record of 26 jointly held by Danehill and Snitzel.

He now has 108 stakes winners globally, all conceived from his Yarraman Park base in the NSW Hunter Valley.

His expected victory in the sires’ championship would make him just the 10th stallion in the past century to win three consecutive Australian Sires championships.

But he has also created history in the sales ring. In 2023, his yearling progeny fetched a combined $62.9 million, a record for any Australian stallion, surpassing what Redoute’s Choice grossed in 2007.

“It’s been such a great journey watching on as I Am Invincible has broken record after record through his career” – Yarraman Park’s Arthur Mitchell

It was the third-highest of any global stallion this century.

His tally of 73 yearlings to have fetched more $1 million at public auction is second only to Redoute’s Choice, who finished on 82.

With I Am Invincible still active and having had 10 yearlings in that category in 2024, the rising 20-year-old is expected to take that record shortly.