Alma Vale / Kitchwin Hills to Offer Lone I Am Invincible Filly at Inglis Weanlings

Sponsored Content - by Tara Madgwick - Sunday May 5

The newly created Alma Vale /Kitchwin Hills Partnership run by Verna Metcalfe (General Manager of Alma Vale and Kitchwin Hills) and Stud Manager Oscar Englebrecht has hit the ground running this year and have been kept busy at Riverside Stables this week with a draft of 24 youngsters to be offered at the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale next Monday and Tuesday.

The draft includes the progeny of 14 different sires that include first season horses Acrobat, Profiteer, Stay Inside and Wild Ruler with the only filly in the sale by champion sire I Am Invincible an obvious highlight.

I Am Invincible filly from Shoko, click to see her page.

Lot 195 is a three-quarter sister-in-blood by I Am Invincible to Group III winning juvenile Barbaric and is the second living foal of Group III winning Sebring mare Shoko, a half-sister to Group II winner Mimi Le Brock and Group III winner Heavenly Thought.

Shoko is a top class mare that sold for $1million at the 2021 Inglis Chairman’s Sale and she is currently in foal to I Am Invincible’s champion son Home Affairs, who has only one filly in this sale and she too will be offered in this draft.

Home Affairs filly from Aaralyn, click to see her page.

Lot 290 is a Home Affairs filly from winning Choisir mare Aaralyn, a three-quarter sister-in-blood to champion sprinter and Group I sire Starspangledbanner and half-sister to Group I winner Amicus, who is now back in Australia and produced a Frankel colt last spring.

Aaralyn also had a Zoustar yearling colt sell at Magic Millions this year for $500,000, so there is a bit going on in this family with potential for high upside in the future.

Click here to the full draft with additional highlights below:

Lot 117 Filly Stay Inside x Oh My Mimi, by Snitzel

From the first crop of Gold Slipper winning Champion 2YO Stay Inside and comes from the same family as the filly above. Fourth foal from a winning sister to Group III placed Diddums and half-sister to Group III winner Barbaric from Group II winner Mimi Le Brock.

Lot 237 Filly Farnan x The Answer, by Dissident

From the second crop of Golden Slipper winning Champion 2YO Colt Farnan. First living foal of unraced half-sister to Group III winner The Voice and stakes-winner Royal Zulu Guard. She hails from the same female family as two of the most influential sires in history in Danehill and Northern Dancer tracing back to sixth dam Natalma on her tail female line.

Lot 319 Filly Farnan x Avenue, by Anabaa (USA)

Another by Farnan and this one is a half-sister to five winners from Group III winner Avenue, a sister to dual Group I winner Virage de Fortune from the family of champion mare Emancipation.

Lot 363 Filly Wild Ruler x Commandment, by Commands

From the first crop of Group I winning sprinter Wild Ruler. Half-sister to a winner from a half-sister to Group I winner Tully Thunder, the grand-dam of Group I ATC Australian Derby winner Levendi and Group winners Wu Gok and Marcel from Madrid. A prolific Black Type family with just two dams on the page.

Commandment had a yearling colt by Extreme Choice sell for $500,000 at Magic Millions this year.

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