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Champion stallion produces top colt and filly of Premier Sale late on Day 2.
I Am Invincible now has the most expensive colt and filly of the 2022 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale after finishing Monday's second day of selling with a flourish.
The Yarraman Park stallion set a new benchmark for the sale when his son of Fine Bubbles (Casio Prince) sold to Coolmore for $950,000, which eclipsed the $675,000 paid for a colt by Written Tycoon on Day 1.
The new sale-topper went through 15 minutes from the end of the session and not long after Bon Ho paid $550,000 for an I Am Invincible filly out of the Savabeel mare Edean Rose.
Coolmore's nominations and sales manager Colm Santry said he was not shocked they was forced to go so high for the colt – who attracted a $500,000 opening bid – and is by the same sire as Coolmore Stud Stakes and Black Caviar Lightning winner Home Affairs, who also sports the Coolmore colours.
"He was probably the best colt in the sale, we've hung around for a week for him and very late in the evening, but we're very happy to get him," Santry said of the colt who will be trained by Chris Waller.
"For a farm like ourselves withHome Affairs and the future that he'll have at Coolmore and maybe even on the international stage for Australia, if you can find these colts – they're hard to find – but when you get one, they're really what we're looking for."
Coolmore's buy is the fifth foal from Fine Bubbles, who has had four to race for two winners including Covert Ops, who was runner-up in the 2018 Breeders Plate.
The colt became the third highest-priced yearling sold in Victoria, behind the $1.4 million I Am Invincible colt from 2017, who races as Octane, and last year's $1.1 million Written Tycoon colt.
Widden Stud, which branched out into Victoria last year, offered the colt and Widden principal Antony Thompson said the significance of the result could not be underestimated.
"The draft of horses we've presented here, they're proper main sale horses and we're very serious in our commitment to the Victoria industry, as we are to the Widden and Hunter Valley, and I think this is a pretty good example in the draft of horses we've presented here.
"To be topping the sale at this stage really reinforces that."
The two expensive late lots rocketed I Am Invincible to the head of the leading sire by average table with his seven lots amassing $3,075,000 at an average of $439,286.
Bon Ho's purchase inherited the mantle as the sale's top-priced female from the Snitzel filly Clinton McDonald paid $475,000 for.
"She was the pick of the sale for me," Ho said. "She's a lovely filly with a strong pedigree. I was able to view video footage of her on the Inglis website the past couple of weeks and I also loved the way she moved.
"I love I Am Invincible as a stallion, he's one of my favourites, so I couldn't be happier to buy this filly. She wasn't cheap but I'm very pleased she's mine now.''
Ho's purchase, his second $550,000 buy of the sale to go with a Snitzel colt bought on Day 1, will be trained by John, Wayne and Michael Hawkes.
