I Am Invincible - New Winner

Second to subsequent Group III ATC Breeders Plate winner Espionage at the official Sydney 2YO trials last month, expensive I Am Invincible colt Bodyguard was dispatched to Melbourne for the $175,000 Listed VRC Maribyrnong Trial (100m) at Flemington on Saturday and produced a stylish debut win in the James Harron Bloodstock colours.

Expensive I Am Invincible colt Bodyguard looked good winning the Listed VRC Maribyrnong Trial (1000m) at Flemington last spring and even better when resuming from a spell to score a dominant win in a hot clash of colts in the $300,000 Group III MRC Blue Diamond Prelude (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

Here is the full list of 28 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Ending his Autumn campaign with three consecutive Listed victories, two-year-old Spirit Of Boom colt Shining Smile resumed from a spell on Saturday, winning the $150,000 VRC Member Sarah Hart Trophy (1000m).

Triple Crown Syndications appear to have a horse with plenty of upside as we approach the new season after their 2yo Pierata gelding Without Peer made a winning debut in the Traffic Warden @ Darley Handicap (1200m) on Saturday at Rosehill.

When Churchill (IRE) gelding Robusto was offered on Inglis Digital last September he was a solid Saturday class horse that had claimed a Benchmark 88 event on July 20, fast forward 12 months and he’s a $2.1million earner with the Listed ATC Winter Challenge (1500m) on his resume.

The $150,000 VRC Byerley Handicap (1800m) at Flemington has the added incentive of providing the winner with automatic entry into the Group I VRC Victoria Derby later in the year and this year’s winner Arcora will certainly be heading in that direction.

Improving off a close-up second in the Listed Oaklands Plate last start, two-year-old Maurice filly Ethereum Girl was too classy, winning the Group 3 South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes.

Yes Yes Yes has been relocated to stand at Gooree Park Stud this spring and the Everest hero was in the frame at Rosehill on Saturday when talented filly Useapin posted her first metropolitan victory.

The rookie pair of Joshua Brown and his owner-trainer Lance Gussey took out one of New Zealand racing’s biggest winter prizes in Saturday’s $120,000 Listed Sinclair Electrical & Refrigeration Opunake Cup (1400m) at New Plymouth.