Lone I Am Invincible in the sale an early star at Great Southern Sale
Trilogy Racing hopes it has unearthed the next I Am A Star after stumping up for a daughter of I Am Invincible on Thursday's first day of the Great Southern Weanling Sale at Oaklands Junction.
Sean Dingwall went to $280,000 for the Rushton Park-prepared filly.
The filly is out of the Oratorio mare Private Dancer, who was a Listed winner and Group 3-placed in Perth, and Dingwall was buoyed by the words of Steve Jostlear as she was in the ring.
"She wasn't by any means the best looking I Am Invincible that you'll ever see but the cross works," Dingwall said.
"Steve Jostlear was with me from Ampulla Lodge and he said she was a dead ringer for I Am A Star at the same age.
"Pedigree-wise, it matched and it's the right pedigree for him, so we decided to have a crack."
I Am A Star, a daughter of I Am Invincible and the Dixieland Band mare Star Band, counted the Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes among her 10 wins in a 31-start career that amassed more than $1.5 million in earnings.
Trilogy's big buy was the lone I Am Invincible at the sale and Dingwall was not surprised he had to dig deep to acquire her.
Trilogy Racing is not set on what it will do with her yet, but the likelihood is she will be seen at a yearling sale next year.
"Obviously there was a few people on her, but I still think she was good value at that money," Dingwall said.
"We're fortunate enough to be able to look at it from a dual-purpose perspective; we can either retrade her or race her.
"We really don't mind either way. I would say that we will put her back through (as a yearling) and then just see where we stand with her after that. If we don't get what we want, we'll race her."
The I Am Invincible filly, who went through as Lot 19, was one of several stars in the first hour of the sale with the only Snitzel colt to be offered at a weanling sale this year selling to Justin Bahen for $200,000, the same price as a Written Tycoon filly knocked down to Bevan Smith and Andrew Williams.
