Sire: Invader
Colour: Chestnut
Dam: Tears in Heaven
Sex: Filly
Age: 5
Foaled: Sep 21, 2019
Country: Australia
Trainer: Lee & Cherie Curtis
Incentives: 
Owners: Ms C E Curtis, Mystery Downs (Mgr: F W Cook), Mrs C M Cook, D P S Barker, A T Maher, Mrs T A Russell, A Stewart, A J Kent, Miss C J Fahey, C Rowe & P Hickman
INGLIS CLASSIC YEARLING SALE PURCHASE – $75,000
Beautiful, strong and athletic filly by Champion 2yo son of Snitzel, INVADER.
From the stakes placed Domesday mare TEARS IN HEAVEN.
Bred on the same line as the brilliant colt TRAPEZE ARTIST (Snitzel x Domesday cross)
THE FILLY
- Confident
- Athletic
- Sharp
- Balanced
- Strong
A beautifully balanced filly who loves her work. An athletic individual, stands over nice ground and moves with fluency. A lovely racy filly with a solid dam line by an exciting young sire.
AUGUST UPDATE –
We are very happy with the filly’s progress. She has grown very nicely and she continues to impress in her work and in the stable. She is now almost ready to go! Names are being called for and she will head off to the trials in September. A very nice filly, ticking all the boxes and the time has been given so anyone coming in now will be joining the ownership of a horse that will be racing very soon!
THE SIRE
Invader’s win in the Sires’ Produce was nothing short of sensational. Stepping up to 1400m for the first time, he settled five lengths behind the early leaders before bursting clear at the 50m mark to win by three-quarters of a length.
In what was one of the strongest ever fields in the race Invader beat another Group One-winning Snitzel colt in Summer Passage. Subsequent Group One T J Smith, Golden Rose and All-Aged Stakes winner Trapeze Artist, also by Snitzel, was third.
The victory was a just reward for Invader who had been unlucky to miss the Golden Slipper a fortnight prior when a stone bruise saw him scratched on the eve of the $3.5million race.
Peter Snowden was bullish after the victory; “When you go back and look at that, he drew four but to manoeuvre and get to where he did from where he was in the clear was something to behold. It went a long way to the horse winning today.”
Invader has the all-important Australian market requirements of precocity, speed and conformation and being by Snitzel and out of a black-type Encosta de Lagomare he is positioned to continue the legacy of Champion Sires Danehill, Redoute’s Choice and Snitzel before him and become the next sire-sensation in Australia.
- By Champion Sire Snitzel
- Snitzel’s highest-rated Timeform 2YO in history
- The ONLY 2YO Colt by Snitzel to win a G1 over a sprint distance
- The Champion 2YO Colt of his generation
Pictured – Invader
THE DAM
Tears in Heaven is a 6 time winning Domesday mare who was stakes placed in the Sydney/NSW region. A winner over the distances of 1000-1400m and up until the age of 8 years she was a tough mare to say the least.
Domesday is a very successful broodmare sire in Australia, his greatest success as a brood are sire is of the outstanding colt Trapeze Artist who is by Snitzel, making our filly bred on the same line,
Pictured – Tears in Heaven
Our filly is bred on the same line as the brilliant multiple Group 1 winning colt and emerging stallion TRAPEZE ARTIST. He currently stands at Widden stud for $77,000.
Trapeze Artist TVC from Widden Stud on Vimeo.
Pictured – Trapeze Artist
THE PLAN
FULLY NOMINATED FOR THE INGLIS SERIES
- $8,000,000 races series for 2 & 3 year olds sold through Inglis sales
- Four races recognised with Restricted Listed black type
- 7 races to be run in Sydney, Melbourne or Scone
BOBS ELIGIBLE
Racing NSW BOBS (Breeder Owner Bonus Scheme) rewards owners who invest in NSW bloodstock.
BOBS bonuses are paid out on racetracks all around NSW, adding a payment of up to $20,000 for each win as a two-year-old and three-year-old. Last season, over $13 million was paid out in cash bonuses and Double-Up vouchers, bringing the total since the scheme’s inception to over $129 million.
To be eligible for BOBS, a horse must be sired by a BOBS eligible stallion and nominated for the scheme.
Ownership opportunities available.
Please contact Cherie on 0420818404 or Lee on 0406997705 or email admin@curtisracingstables.com.au
Photo of Tears in Heaven courtesy of Bradley Photos.