GIVEN the popularity of Invincible Spirit, it was surely disappointing last year when his February-foaled colt out of Nessina failed to sell at 150,000gns in Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Sale.

Offered from his breeder’s Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar’s Blue Diamond Stud through Voute Sales, the colt is the first foal of the unraced Hennessy mare Nessina who had been purchased, carrying her first foal, by Tony Nerses for 300,000gns.