I Am Invincible Gelding Tops HK International Sale on Friday

Tara Madgwick - Saturday March 8

A gelding by reigning champion sire I Am Invincible returned the highest price at the 2025 Hong Kong International Sale (HKIS) on Friday night at Sha Tin after fetching a bid of HK$5 million (A$1,021,200)

Top lot by I Am Invincible from Subsequent.

Lot 12 was purchased by Philip Liu and is a half-brother to the Group I winner Summer Passage from Subsequent and was sourced from the Highgrove Stud draft at Inglis Easter for A$580,000 in 2023.

Mr Danny Rolston, Executive Manager, International Sale/Owners Advisory Services, The Hong Kong Jockey Club, said: “We’ve put some really nice horses up, we were really selective on the final group that we offered to the market.

“As you would know from the withdrawal list, we took out the horses that weren’t suitable for sale right at this point – some of those will be made available for sale at a later stage – but what we did offer here tonight are horses that we have a lot of confidence in. Some of the horses at the lower end of the market this year, we’re absolutely positive that there’s some great value in hand.

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“I think the market has dictated that horses aren’t worth the same as what they perhaps were two years ago and we’re confident that we’ve released some really nice horses into the market for our permit holders and in another 12 months we’ll be telling more stories like Markwin and New Future Folks and permit holders have come to the international sale and they’ve actually got value and they’ve been able to buy horses that are right here and ready to train and have a pretty good chance of going and winning a race in their first 12 months and being a chance in their four-year-old season.

The average of the sale was HK$3.006 million, the median price was HK$2.6 million, while the total sale returned HK$45.1 million.

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