Magic Millions race favourite Invincible Woman marks full-circle moment for owner
When Hannah Jennings made the winning bid for a yearling filly in 2019, little did she know it would change her life.
When Invincible Woman lines up to compete for $3m in prize money in Saturday’s flagship Magic Millions race, it will mark a full-circle moment for her part-owner Hannah Jennings.
It has been a week of such moments for the resident of Kentucky in the US, who returned on Tuesday to the Gold Coast to the racehorse sale that changed her life.
It was January 2019 when Ms Jennings, who had been working in the racing industry in Australia, was part of the team to make the winning $425,000 bid at the Magic Millions yearling sale on a then unproven filly.
That filly became known as Away Game and went on to win the Magic Millions 2YO Classic the following year and then ran second in the Golden Slipper.
With a cumulative $3.57m in winnings, Ms Jennings and her husband bought a farm back in their home state, where they raise two children and breed thoroughbreds.
When they sold Away Game for $4m in 2022, they used the earnings to buy the farm next door, expanding their breeding operation. At the same auction, they used some of the sale money to pay $250,000 for the mare Showcase, who was then in foal to champion stallion I Am Invincible.
The foal sold at last year’s January sale for $250,000, with Ms Jennings retaining a quarter share of the ownership. That foal is now known as Invincible Woman and will line up as favourite in Saturday’s Magic Millions 2YO Classic.
To complete the revolution, Ms Jennings was in the room on Tuesday to watch Away Game’s first foal sell at auction for $1.8m – the second most valuable horse of the sale so far.
“She (Away Game) took us on the ride of a lifetime,” she said. “Hopefully Invincible Woman will also be able to reward us on Saturday. To be here for the sale and see Away Game’s first foal sell was a really special moment.
“Her filly was the talk of the sale and it’s great to see (seller) Yulong rewarded for their purchase two years ago.”
Magic Millions organisers are confident the refurbished Gold Coast Turf Club track, damaged by poison last week, will be given the all-clear when it is put through its paces by jockeys on Thursday morning.
Police are still investigating the damage, the cause of which Racing Queensland chief executive Jason Scott said was still “to be determined”.
“There are a few signs we’ve seen that make it look like it may be deliberate, but we will leave that to police,” Mr Scott said.
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