Nicks That Click - Coincidence?

Tara Madgwick - Monday August 26
Recognizing emerging patterns in the breeding of stakes-winners is a topic that fascinates most breeders and it might be no coincidence that the horse regarded as the best offspring to date sired by I Am Invincible is bred along very similar lines to a filly many are tipping as his next superstar.

A brilliant win by Libertini (pictured below Steve Hart) in the Group II ATC Silver Shadow Stakes last Saturday has her being lauded by many as a rising star, but she has a way to go yet to be compared with I Am Invincible's best horse to date in Brazen Beau.



Winner of the Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes and Newmarket Handicap, Brazen Beau was the Champion 3YO Sprinter of his generation and came from the first crop of I Am Invincible, so his pedigree was far from flash in terms of Black Type on the page, but the mating did feature a prominent double cross of champion sires Danzig and Bletchingly suggesting speed would be his forte.



A very similar double up of the same sires can be found in Libertini's pedigree and while her pedigree page is first class being from Group I winning mare Aloha from the famed Tennessee family, the end result is the same – a high class sprinter.




They aren't the only I Am Invincible stakes-winners bred this way with Houtzen, Eckstein and Overshare also carrying that double up of both sires, while a further two of his stakes-winners in With a Promise and Leeds have a double of Bletchingly and a whopping 26 in total have a double cross of Danzig.

Champion sire Redoute's Choice, who carries both Danzig and Bletchingly, is an obvious way to bring this potent mix into play and his daughters have produced 17 winners from 24 runners by I Am Invincible headed by Overshare.



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