INVINCIBLE SPIRIT RETIRED 31 Oct 2024 09:38
The Irish National Stud has announced the retirement of
Invincible Spirit, the sire of 22 individual Group 1 winners worldwide,
including Kingman, Moonlight Cloud and Magna Grecia.
A son of Green Desert and the highly influential Prix de
Diane winner Rafha, Invincible Spirit was a top-class performer on the track
for Prince AA Faisal and the John Dunlop stable, with seven victories headed by
the Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock.
It was arguably the brilliant Kingman who pushed the
stallion to another level, with the four-time Group 1 winner becoming
Invincible Spirit’s first Irish Classic winner in the 2014 Irish 2,000
Guineas.
That result contributed to his fee rising to €100,000 the
following year, while it was increased further to €120,000 for the next four
seasons. He had stood at a private fee for the past two years.
Invincible Spirit is also sire of multiple Australian
Champion Sire I Am Invincible and Mauritzfontein’s exciting young stallion
Digital Age.
