I Am Invincible Fee Reduced to A$220,000 for 2025

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I Am Invincible (Aus) will stand the 2025 Southern Hemisphere breeding season at a reduced fee of A$220,000 inc GST, with Yarraman Park Stud's Arthur Mitchell citing the “challenges facing trainers and syndicators, along with breeders” as one of the reasons for the decrease.

“It's certainly always a consideration for us when setting all of our stallions' fees, along with where they are placed in their careers,” said Mitchell, Yarraman's principal.

“Vinnie is entering his twilight years and there are limited outside nominations available. We are also mindful of the challenges facing trainers and syndicators, along with breeders. The cost of production and wages–everything has increased. We want to ensure everyone has a good chance, no matter which part of the market they operate in.”

I Am Invincible, who stood for a fee of A$275,000 inc GST in 2024, emulated Danehill and Snitzel (Aus) when he was crowned champion sire for a third consecutive season in 2023/24. He has now sired 117 stakes winners and a further 95 stakes performers.

This season, he leads the Australian sires' table by winners and sits second by the number of individual stakes winners.

“He has an exceptional 9.5 per cent stakes winners to runners this season,” Mitchell added. “He is the leading sire of two-year-old stakes winners, which includes the unbeaten two-year-old colt Vinrock, winner of the G1 Sires' Produce Stakes, who was subsequently purchased as a stallion prospect by Yulong.

“I Am Invincible's legacy is already assured with both his sons and his daughters continuing his influence. His multiple Group 1-winning daughter Imperatriz became Australasia's most expensive broodmare making A$6.6 million last May, while he is also the broodmare sire of Group 1 winners in both hemispheres in 2024. He's showing all the signs of becoming a very dominant broodmare sire.”

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