Yarraman Park’s I Am Invincible enjoyed a good day at the office on Saturday with two stakes-winners, two stakes placed horses and a total of five winners on the day.
Winner of the Group II BRC Sires Produce Stakes last year and third in the Group I BRC JJ Atkins Stakes, class three year-old filly Look to the Stars recaptured her best form at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday.
Now trained by David Vandkye after starting her career with Clarry Conners, Look to the Stars was fit and ready to fire at her third run back from a spell and raced up on the pace before kicking strongly to win the 1600 metre Listed $100,000 BRC Princess Stakes over 1600 metres by a short neck.
“Wins like today are great because it was for Darby Racing who have supported me in my move here and it was my first runner from my new stable,” said David Vandyke, who has moved to the Sunshine Coast from Warwick Farm.
A $26,000 Inglis Scone Yearling Sale purchase for Darby Racing from the Yarraman Park draft, Look to the Stars has won three races and placed three times from 14 starts earning over $350,000.
“It is great to get her back somewhere near her best form. From here we will head to the Doomben Roses in a three weeks and then hopefully the Queensland Oaks,” Vandyke said.
Bred and offered for sale by Yarraman Park, she is the second winner for Argentinean Group II winner Star Prize (Arg), a daughter of More Than Ready’s sire Southern Halo.
Trained by Stuart Kendrick, Divine Centuri had won two of her previous four starts and was initially headed to Sydney for the Listed ATC PJ Bell Stakes at Randwick before a wide gate forced a rethink with happy results all round.
“We decided to chase the Dittman Plate and then the Gold Coast Guineas in a fortnight,” Kendrick said.
“We had a lot of trouble with her early as she had some injury problems. But when she came back and won impressively first-up to Doomben last month we knew we had something.
A $46,000 Inglis Classic purchase for her trainer from the Superhorse Trust draft, Divine Centuri has won three of five starts earning nearly $100,000 in prizemoney.
The 11th stakes-winner for I Am Invincible, she is the best of three winners from Encosta de Lago mare Witching Ways, who comes from the family of Group II winner Amberino.
A full sister to Divine Centuri was sold at Inglis Classic this year for $52,500 to Yu Long Investments and looks to have been very well bought!
Also earning Black Type in Adelaide were progressive types I Am Gypsy, who was a close second in the Group III SAJC RN Irwin Stakes and Comprende, who was third in the Group III SAJC Auraria Stakes.
I Am Invincible stands this spring at a fee of $55,000 and covered 198 mares last year.
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