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Magna Grecia after his 2,000 Guineas success. By Invincible Spirit, can he follow in the hoofprints of I Am Invincible, Kingman and Cable Bay?
felt winning a Naas maiden over 7f before tackling the Group 3 Autumn Stakes.
There he lost out by a neck to future Classic winner Persian King, but defeated stable companion and subsequent
Group 1 winner Circus Maximus and the Group 1-placed Western Australia.
He then moved up to Group 1 company for the Vertem Futurity and in a thrilling finish held on from Phoenix Of Spain in a race that went on to provide the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas winners of 2019, with Circus Maximus behind in third.
Ante-post favourite for the 2,000 Guineas, Magna Grecia made his seasonal debut in the first Classic of the season. Racing in a small group on the nearside of the course, he made his move a furlong from home and nothing could catch him winning by two and a half lengths from subsequent Group 1 winner King Of Change, with Ten Sovereigns, Advertise and Madhmoon in behind.
A torn hamstring sustained in the Irish 2,000 Guineas contributed toward denying him the chance of a Guineas double and kept him off the track for much of the remainder
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of the season. The colt only made it back
on to the racecourse for the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes in October, a race won by King Of Change.
He is one of three winners from five runners out of Cabaret, a daughter of Galileo and winner of the Group 3 Silver Flash Stakes at two.
Cabaret is a half-sister to the Group 3 Solario Stakes winner Drumfire (Danehill Dancer) and the Pivotal gelding Ho Choi, who won the Listed Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup
at Sha Tin and was second in the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes.
They are out of the Lear Fan mare Witch Of Fife, winner of two races at two and third in the Listed Sweet Solera Stakes.
She is a half-sister to the unraced Quiet American mare Quiet Mouse, who is
the dam of the Group 3 Park Stakes and Listed Testimonial Stakes winner Ugo Fire (Bluebird), who was also placed in the
Group 1 Moyglare and Phoenix Stakes at two. Another half-sister is the dam of Group 2 May Hill Stakes third Musharakaat (Iffraaj).
Third dam Fife is a winning daughter of
Lomond and a half-sister to Piffle (Shirley Heights), who is the dam of Grade 1 Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes and Group 3 Beresford Stakes winner Frenchpark (Fools Home) and the Group 1 Prix Vermeille winner Pearly Shells, a daughter of Efisio.
Pearly Shells is the dam of German Group 3 winner Pearl Banks (Pivotal) and the Listed-winning Monsun filly Pearls Or Passion. She is also the second dam of the 2019 Group 3 Prix de Royaumont winner Pelligrina (Soldier Hollow) and the Listed winners Lucky Lyrca and Pearly Steph.
Invincible Spirit has been a wonderful success story for the Irish National Stud, with his influence reaching across the globe. He is the sire of 18 individual Group 1 winners and his sons are carrying on his legacy at stud.
I Am Invincible has had nine Group 1 winners, and was champion first-season sire and had been champion two-year-old sire as well as twice second in the leading sires’ table.
In the northern hemisphere Kingman has made a successful start to his stud career, with a Group 1 winner already, while Cable Bay’s first crop impressed and he was among