Saturday, January 3, 2009

That's the Spirit

The Northern Hemisphere racing season has just concluded and as expected the Champion All European, third-season sire was KW's dad Invincible Spirit with progeny prizemoney totalling $4,445,159.
Invincible Spirit finished a close second to Rock of Gibraltar in 2007 after winning in 2006 in sensational fashion when he set a new world record for the most winners in his first season.
The race to become leading third-season sire of Great Britain for 2008 went right down to the wire. With days to go Invincible Spirit inched in front of Kyllachy but the son of Pivotal fought back to win by a mere $7153.
Invincible Spirit was also leading third-season sire of Ireland with $ 1,197,706 (def. Rock of Gibraltar, $697,275) and Italy with $632,694 (def. Sakhee, $586,365).
In all he produced 80 winners from 182 runners (an impressive 44%).

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