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Man who trained stallion sensation owned winning bid for his lone weanling at National Sale.
I Am Invincible's stud success has had positives and negatives for retired Victorian trainer and now bloodstock advisor Peter J Morgan.
The son of Invincible Spirit's rise is good from the point of view that Morgan is remembered as the man who prepared him to his greatest successes, but it is bad because of how expensive his progeny have become.
That means Morgan struggles to get involved at the sales.
But he got what he considered a bargain on Friday when he landed the only product of the Yarraman Park stallion at this year's Magic Millions National Weanling Sale; a colt out of VRC Oaks winner Faint Perfume.
Morgan, who acted on behalf of Michael Christian's Longwood Thoroughbreds, paid $500,000 for the bay or brown colt who is a half-brother to G2 Adelaide Cup winner Good Idea (So You Tink) and G3 Grand Prix Stakes winner Chains Of Honour (Redoute's Choice).
"We thought we'd have to pay a lot more, so we're pretty tickled pink, especially when we thought he was going to be about $650,000 or something," he said.
Morgan has followed the entirety of I Am Invincible's career at stud more closely than most given the success he had with him on the track.
I Am Invincible placed in a G3 Kindergarten Stakes for original trainer Toby Edmonds and won a race while in the care of the Hawkes family, but won the G3 D.C. McKay Stakes and Listed Monash Stakes and was runner-up to Takeover Target in the G1 The Goodwood for Morgan.
"I've had some good city winners (by I Am Invincible) but I haven't cracked it for a good one because they've got too dear now," Morgan said.
"You've got to find someone to pay that sort of money for them."
Morgan had an ally in Christian, who will raise the colt at his Victorian farm before reoffering him at either Magic Millions or Inglis Easter next year.
"He's a typical 'Vinnie'," Morgan said. "The only thing I had against him being a Vinnie was he probably didn't have a head like a Vinnie, but he had the rest of his body like a Vinnie.
"Hopefully he'll be one of the stars in one of the sales coming up next year."
