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A couple of disappointing efforts followed and he was put away for the remainder of the year but returned at four to win the Listed Cammidge Trophy on his debut.
He followed up with victory in the Group 2 Duke Of York Stakes and also claimed the Group 3 Chipchase Stakes.
He mixed it with the best sprinters finishing third to Fairyland in the Group 1 Flying Five Stakes and ahead of Soldier’s Call, Soffia and Mab’s Cross, before finishing fourth in the Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye, defeating Fairyland, Mab’s Cross, Battaash and Gold Vibe.
Invincible Army retires with a record of six wins, all over 6f, and eight places over the same trip and the minimum distance from 19 starts.
He is the best of two winners so far out of Rajeem, who is a half-sister to three mares who have produced black-type horses.
They are headed by the unraced Cape Cross mare Poldhu, who is the dam of 2019’s Group 3 Fred Darling Stakes winner Dandhu (Dandy Man).
Her Mtoto half-sister, the unraced Sister Golightly, is the dam of Group 3-placed Jeanne Girl (Rip Van Winkle) and the Italian Listed placed Jack Boy (Hawk Wing).
Their Kyllachy half-sister Grand Mary is the dam of South African Listed-placed filly Mary O’Reilly.
Invincible Army’s second dam Magic Sister is by Cadeaux Genereux and is a full-sister
to the European champion two-year-old filly Hoh Magic, who won the Group 1 Prix Morny, the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes and the Listed Dragon Stakes. She also finished third in the Group 1 July Cup and Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes.
They are out of Gunner’s Belle, a winner
of three races, the dam of six winners, and
a half-sister to the sire Crimson Beau (High Line), winner of the Group 2 Prince of Wales’s Stakes and second in the Group 1 Eclipse and International Stakes.
Like Invincible Army, Cable Bay is by Invincible Spirit and out of a daughter of Diktat, and he has been a revelation in his first season with runners.
Cable Bay was the leading first-season sire in Britain and Ireland on earnings and second in Europe by the same metric.
His best performer was the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes and Listed Dragon Stakes winner Liberty Beach, who was second in the Group 2 Lowther Stakes.
Interestingly, she is inbred 4x4 to Warning, who is the sire of Diktat and the grandsire of Liberty Beach’s dam-sire
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Avonbridge, so replicating that pattern with Warning or even closer with Diktat or his sons such as Dream Ahead could work very well for Invincible Army.
Cable Bay is also the sire of Ropey Guest, who was placed in six Group contests at two including the Group 3 Zetland Stakes, the Somerville and Horris Hill Stakes, and the dual Listed-placed filly Isabeau.
Ropey Guest has Oratorio as his broodmare sire, and Pivotal is the dam-sire of Isabeau.
Invincible Spirit has an impressive record with mares by sons and grandsons of Mr. Prospector and Cable Bay has the Group 3 third Separate out of a Gulch mare, while Jouska, also placed in a Group 3, is out of a daughter of Kingmambo.
Soldier’s Call
Showcasing – Dijarvo (Iceman)
Ballyhane Stud
€10,000
An exciting addition to the Irish stallion ranks, Soldier’s Call offers one of the few opportunities available in Ireland to to tap into the Oasis Dream branch of the Green Desert sire-line.
Soldier’s Call was a high-class racehorse at two and three and is a son Showcasing, who has made such a rapid ascent up the stallion ladder with Group 1 winners Advertise
and Quiet Reflection heading a list of 20 individual Group winners.
Bred to be quick, Soldier’s Call was all that on the track, and he excelled over 5f.
Out early with a debut second in May, he broke his maiden at the second attempt and then provided trainer Archie Watson and owner Steve Parkin of Clipper Logistics with their first Royal Ascot winner when successful in the Listed 5f Windsor Castle Stakes.
He was then third in the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes and made the breakthrough at Group level for himself, and Watson, when winning the Group 3 Prix d’Arenberg.
He made the step up to Group 2 level in a scorching renewal of the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes winning in a record time.
He was went agonisingly close to
winning at Group 1 level finishing a head and a short-head third in the Prix de l’Abbaye
to Mab’s Cross and Gold Vibe. Those behind included Group 1 winners Battaash, Sioux Nation, Havana Grey and Alpha Delphini.
As a three-year-old he performed consistently at the highest level and was second to Battaash in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes and third to Blue Point in the
Soldier’s Call
Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes, beating horses of the calibre of Ten Sovereigns, Fairyland and Mab’s Cross.
He was also fourth to Fairyland in the Group 1 Flying Five Stakes, again beating Mab’s Cross. He also was placed in the Group 2 Sapphire Stakes and the Listed Westow Stakes.
Soldier’s Call has a pedigree full of speed and precocity as a descendant of the
Group 2 Flying Childers and Queen Mary Stakes winner Abeer, who was also placed in the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes,
the Group 2 Cherry Hinton and the Lowther Stakes and Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes.
His dam Dijarvo also performed to her best over 5f winning the Listed Prix de la Fleche at two, but she was Grade 3-placed at four over 7f.