This colt is built to be very fast and early. He is very mature physically and he looks like the ideal colt to target the rich $7.55m Inglis Race series which includes the $2m Inglis Millennium (February 2023).
The colt will be broken in early and given a forward preparation to have him ready for the early races and he will be nominated for both the Golden Slipper and Blue Diamond Stakes.
Mick Price and Michael Kent Junior are the ideal choice of trainer for this colt. The stable is at its best with forward two year-old types, and in particular, colts. Whilst they have a strong record in their home state of Victoria, they are also very good at winning races interstate including Sydney. This was evident last season when the stable won the $2m Inglis Millenium with another forward looking colt from the Inglis Classic sale in Profiteer.
I love this colts female pedigree. The sire line influences of Lope De Vega, More Than Ready, Danehill and Marscay are all speed and you can see it shining through in this colts powerful physique.
I also love the fact he has an absolute topline racemare in Triscay as his fourth dam. I love buying horses with these superior racetrack females as their daughters, grand daughters always unearth topline performers down the line. This is already a sires pedigree with Astern, with Tassort to come.
The colt is a great mover and very correct with good clean knees and a forward topline and evident wither which suggests good physical maturity in a young colt. At the time of the sale he measured 15.1 ½ hands high and weighed in at 499kg.
INVADER was an absolutely glorious yearling. I rated him as one of the top colts at the 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast yearling Sale. My handwritten catalogue notes include ‘outstanding’, ‘quality’, ‘big money’ and ‘huge action’.
Unfortunately despite making my short list as a yearling, INVADER made $475,000 which was well beyond my sale budget.
On the racetrack under the care of Team Snowden, INVADER was as forward as his pedigree and type suggested when he won at Group 1 level in the ATC Sires Produce Stakes , whilst he was also runner up in the Group 1 Champagne Stakes. Plenty was asked of INVADER as a 2yo as he raced in the Breeders Plate and also the Gold Coast Magic Millions.
INVADER has made a good start to his stallion career.
Standing at Aquis Farm in Queensland, INVADER has enjoyed solid support in his four seasons at stud with books of 156, 111,117 and 116 mares.
At the time of writing, IVADER’S first crop to race have delivered 7 starters for 4 winners.
I was incredibly impressed with INVADER’S first crop, but was unable to buy my higher rated Invader yearlings from last year. I started this year keen to secure at least one son or daughter by INVADER.
DOROTEA was bred by Nathan Tinkler’s Patinack Farm and didn’t race, before being sold at a dispersal sale and purchased by her current owner Dr Richard McClenahan.
This colt is the second foal of DOROTEA, a daughter of very successful international sire LOPE DE VEGA.
Her first foal is SENORITA DOTOREA (3yo f Sooboog) who has been runner up at both starts in Perth just prior to Christmas (since the catalogue was produced).
DOROTEA hasn’t had much luck in her other seasons missing or slipping in 2019 and 2021 to Invader and Extreme Choice. DOROTEA was covered in 2022 by ANDERS.
This colts fourth dam TRISCAY was one of the most remarkable race mares I have had the pleasure of watching.
Made in the image of her Golden Slipper winning father Marscay (who raced in the same colours), TRISCAY was out and going as an early two year-old. She won her first three starts prior to Christmas including the Widden Stakes and Silver Slipper. She was placed in the Group 1 Blue Diamond after winning the Blue Diamond Prelude. She failed on the unsuitable Heavy track in the Golden Slipper, before winning the Group 1 Champagne Stakes.
Despite a torrid 2yo year, TRISCAY trained on strongly in the spring at three winning the Gr 2 Silver Shadow Stakes, Group 1 Flight Stakes, before placing in the VRC Oaks.
TRISCAY backed up in the Autumn of her three year-old year to beat the older horses in the Group 2 Apollo Stakes, before winning the Group 1 Australian Guineas at Flemington and the Group 1 AJC Oaks at Randwick. Given only a brief respite, TRISCAY then ventured to Queensland to cap off her 3yo year winning the Gr 2 Queensland Guineas and the Group 1 QTC Oaks, before failing on heavy track in the QTC Derby.