Invasor (foaled August 3, 2002) is a
Thoroughbred racehorse bred in
Argentina by Haras Clausan. The winner of the 2005
Triple Crown in
Uruguay, he was later purchased by
Sheik Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum who paid approximately USD 1.4 million for the horse. His two biggest wins were the
2006 Breeders' Cup Classic, in which he defeated heavily favored
Bernardini and highly fancied
Lava Man, and the 2007
Dubai World Cup, the world's richest horse race. He finished racing with a record of 11-0-0 in twelve starts and career earnings of $7,804,070. He was voted the
Eclipse Award for American Horse of the Year and led the year-end
World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings in 2006.
Beginnings
A bay stallion with a small white star, Invasor was foaled in Argentina, sired by the famous
Candy Stripes out of Quendom by
Interprete. Candy Stripes was also the sire of such notable horses as Criollito, Different,
Leroidesanimaux, Lundy's Liability, Sweetest Thing, and Victory Stripes. Invasor was bought as a two-year-old by brothers, Juan Luis and Luis Alberto Vio Bado, and Pablo Hernandez, three Uruguayans who brought him to Uruguay.
Pablo Hernandez remembers the day he and the two brothers first saw Invasor. Their friend, Miguel Ezcurra, from Bullrich Auctioneers, took them by car to visit some smaller farms near
Buenos Aires. After having seen some 80
colt and
fillies at several farms, they went to Clausan Farm in Areco, a province of Buenos...
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