$1.1million I Am Invincible Filly Something Special

Tara Madgwick - Sunday March 5

A new record price for a yearling filly sold at Inglis Premier was set on Sunday when the Noorilim Park consigned I Am Invincible filly from Special Lover sold for $1.1million.

There have been several seven figure sales at Premier in recent years with a Written Tycoon colt from Gybe selling for $1.1million in 2021 and an I Am Invincible colt from Soorena selling for $1.4million in 2017, but she is the first filly to break the million dollar mark.

$1.1million I Am Invincible filly from Special Lover.

A half-sister to Group III MRC Blue Diamond Preview winner Miss Roseiano, she was purchased by Tony Fung Investments and is the third foal of stakes-placed Pins mare Special Lover, whose first two foals are winners.

The star filly has a royal lineage coming from the famed Eight Carat (GB) family with her dam Special Lover, a grand-daughter of Group I winner Diamond Lover, this branch of the family producing Group I winners Don Eduardo, Tristalove, Viking Ruler and Viscount.

Special Lover was bought as a yearling at Karaka by Noorilim Park’s Peter Carrick in 2014 for $160,000 from the Cambridge Stud draft and raced just four times before retiring a maiden, but she gained valuable Black Type with a third place finish in the Listed SAJC Hill Smith Stakes.

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Her first two foals sold for $240,000 (Easy Single by Not a Single Doubt) and $300,000 (Miss Roseiano by Exceed and Excel) with this filly upping the ante considerably to fulfil the prophecy of Sir Patrick Hogan.

The late Sir Patrick Hogan told Peter Carrick after he purchased Special Lover that she would be a mare that would one day pay for his farm and he’s not been wrong!

Special Lover had no foal last spring after missing to Snitzel, but is now in foal again to I Am Invincible.

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