KITTY Rose won her first two starts last season, notably beating Content by two and a half lengths in the Listed Ballylinch Stud Ingabelle Stakes at Leopardstown. On her final star, Content reversed places in the Group 3 Staffordstown Stud Stakes, with this week’s pattern winner Brilliant and now 1000 Guineas hope nearly three lengths behind her. Connections are hoping Kitty Rose can develop into a classic contender herself. .

Trained by Natalia Lupini, Kitty Rose was one of a dozen juvenile winners in the first crop of Invincible Army, and that number has grown substantially already in 2024. The Yeomanstown Stud sire looks set for a successful season ahead, and breeders can access him this year for only €5,000, half of the fee he commanded on his retirement.

Invincible Army is by a renowned sire of successful stallions, out of a Group 1 winner, and had a track career that brought him pattern success in each of three seasons. He was short-headed by Masar on his debut over six furlongs at Goodwood, ran away with a novice race at Newmarket and went on to take the Group 3 Sirenia Stakes at Kempton. He chased home James Garfield in the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes, Sands Of Mali in the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes and Havana Grey in the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes that year.

At three Invincible Army beat the Group 1-scorer Eqtidaar in the Group 3 Pavilion Stakes at Ascot before being short-headed by Sands Of Mali in the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes at Haydock in a shortened season. He was third to Fairyland in the Group 1 Flying Five and fourth to Glass Slippers in the Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye at four, but won three races.

He landed the Listed Cammidge Trophy Stakes at Doncaster, the Group 2 Duke of York Stakes and Newcastle’s Group 3 Chipchase Stakes.

A stallion career was inevitable. Invincible Army is a son of the Irish National Stud’s leading international sire Invincible Spirit (Green Desert), the Group 1-winning sprinter who is responsible for the established multiple Group 1 sires I Am Invincible, Kingman and Lawman, amongst many others.

Invincible Army is out of the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes winner Rajeem (Diktat), and he is an own-brother to the stakes winner New York City (Invincible Spirit). Rajeem’s dam is a full-sister to the ill-fated Prix Morny heroine, July Cup third and 1000 Guineas fourth Hoh Magic (Cadeaux Genereux).

Race record

INVINCIBLE ARMY (IRE), Bay 2015. Won 6 races, value £371,679, at 2 to 4, over 6 furlongs, Duke of York Stakes, York, Gr.2, Pavilion Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, Chipchase Stakes, Newcastle, Gr.3, Sirenia Stakes, Kempton, Gr.3, Cammidge Trophy, Doncaster, L., also placed second in Gimcrack Stakes, York, Gr.2, Sandy Lane Stakes, Haydock, Gr.2, Mill Reef Stakes, Newbury, Gr.2, Molecomb Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3 and third in Flying Five Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1.

At stud

Retired to stud in 2020, and sire of 18 winners, of 22 races, and £355,766, including KITTY ROSE (GB), Nanisca Park (Ire), Invincible Molly (GB), Chaturanga (Ire), Love Billy Boy (Ire), Miss Mach One (Ire), James’s Delight (Ire), Vantheman (Ire), Cargin Bhui (Ire), Pals Battalion (Ire), Invincible Tiger (Ire), Diamine (Ire), Simplexity (Ire), Trefor (Ire), Bengurion (Ire), So Obsessed (Ire), Straripante (Ire), and Hatadora (Ire).

Information

Stands at: Yeomanstown Stud, Caragh, Naas, Co Kildare, W91 C993, Ireland.

Contact: Gay, David or Robert O’Callaghan

Telephone: +353 45 897314 or +353 87 2565561 (Gay), +353 86 8366554 (David) or +353 85 1191288 (Robert)

Email: office@yeomanstown.ie

Web: www.yeomanstown.ie

Fee: €5,000