Invincible Spirit 2YO Wins In NZ

Australian-bred 2YO gelding Kildonan (Invincible Spirit-Game Lady, by Lord Seymour) motored home from the tail of the field to blitz his rivals by 8.5-lengths on debut over 1400m at Avondale (NZ) for trainer Yves Sequin.

Kildonan, bred similarly to Khamsin Warrior being out of a Sir Gaylord line mare, was a $20,000 yearling at the 2007 Magic Millions Adelaide Sale & subsequently a NZ$56,000 2YO at the 2007 NZ Bloodstock Horses-In-Training Sale at which he posted an impressive breeze-up time of 10.82 seconds.

NZ's Thoroughbred News ran this story following his win.
Kildonan impresses at Avondale
11 Jun 2008 By Jeff Dore
In much the same way that Rafael Nadal destroyed Roger Federer in the recent French Open tennis final, debutante Australian bred galloper Kildonan (2 B. G. Invincible Spirit – Game Lady by Lord Seymour) decimated his rivals in the New Lynn RSA (1400m) Maiden Juvenile at Avondale on Wednesday.
While Nadal only allowed Federer a total of four games in his three-set whitewash, Kildonan hardly gave his opponents a look-in when racing away to win untouched by eight and a half lengths.
A trial winner at Avondale prior to his first race-day outing, Kildonan was heavily supported on the tote and ridden with extreme confidence by Andrew Calder.
After loping along at the tail of the field on a genuine pace, Calder let Kildonan slide forward wide on the track from seven lengths off the lead at the 600 metres, while still firmly held. He slipped into another gear when improving widest of all to level at the 400 and turned the race into a procession when sprinting clear under minimal urging.
And, his two closest rivals had proved themselves to be no mugs at their previous debut starts. Finishing second, Bakup (Kilimanjaro - Dastaria) had recorded a big late run to fill the same position at Pukekohe last time, while the richly bred Monte Cervino (Montjeu – Sierra Dane) improved to claim third, having found the line for fourth in the same race as Bakup prior.
The time for the 1400 metres on a genuine slow track was 1:27.36.
Prepared at Cambridge by Yves Sequin for Bruce and Maureen Harvey, Kildonan was purchased by Michael Wallace Bloodstock for $56,000 from the 2007 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale, and the enormity of his win appears to make the outlay chickenfeed.
His Irish bred sire Invincible Spirit (Green Desert – Rafha by Kris) was a group one winner of seven races, including two as a two-year-old, and his oldest Australian bred progeny are three.
Kildonan obviously has any amount of ability and seems quite capable of going over more ground, judging by both his racing manner and pedigree.