The Invincible Speed Sireline

Invincible Spirit (Green Desert) has developed a stellar record as a sire of sires over recent years. It’s even more impressive as his success has not been limited to either hemisphere. The Irish National Stud resident shuttled to Chatswood Stud from 2003-2006 and now has seven sons at stud in Australia and New Zealand.

Invincible Spirit is currently regarded as one of the most respected sire of sires in the world, despite having had to work his way up the stallion ladder after starting out on the lower rungs. I

He retired to the Irish National Stud in 2003 at a fee of €10,000, and now, 16 years later, he commands a fee of €120,000.

It was in Australia that Invincible

Spirit made his first serious mark as a sire of sires and racehorses, with I

Am Invincible proving the long-term star.

I Am Invincible’s biggest achievement came when he broke the record for the most stakes winners in a season (2018-19), previously held by champion sires Danehill and Snitzel, with 28 individual Australian stakes winners.

Also siring the most 2-year-old stakes winners of any stallion in Australia last year with eight, I Am Invincible secured his first 2-Year-Old Sires’

Premiership after a tough battle with

Snitzel.

It is thus understandable that Spendthrift Australia added a son of I Am Invincible to their roster with Group winner Overshare. A winner at two and multiple stakes winner at three, the exciting colonial Invincible Spirit-line stallion impressed breeders with his first crop of foals last season.

Overshare stood his first season at stud for $11,000 and remains at that fee in his third season, following in the footsteps of his sire I Am Invincible who stood his first four seasons at stud for the same fee and now commands a fee of $209,000.

He bred nine stakes mares in his first season with his percentage of stakes mares and producers at 16.6%, comparable to I Am Invincible’s 11 stakes mares and 20.3% stakes mares and producers in his first season.

He then covered a book of 150 mares in his second season – a direct consequence of his outstanding foal quality.

The meteoric rise of I Am Invincible from his humble beginnings bodes well for Overshare. As does the progress of Invincible Spirit’s career during the next few years, with the certainties seeming to be that his list of top-class offspring will continue to grow and that his reputation as a sire of sires will continue to solidify.