Race report
Stallion statistics: Invincible Spirit

DARLEY JULY CUP-G1

£400,000, Newmarket, 7-10, 3yo/up, 6fT, 1:09.58, gd/fm.

1--FLEETING SPIRIT (IRE), 128, f, 4
Invincible Spirit (Ire)--Millennium Tale (Fr), by Distant Relative (Ire)
O-The Searchers; B-Mrs Bernadette Hayden; T-Jeremy Noseda; J-Tom Queally; £227,080.

2--Main Aim (GB), 131, c, 4
Oasis Dream (GB)--Orford Ness (GB), by Selkirk.
O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd; T-Sir Michael Stoute; £86,080.

3--J J the Jet Plane (SAf), 131, g, 5
Jet Master (Saf)--Majestic Guest (SAf), by Northern Guest.
O-Strydom, du Preez, Houdalakis, Boyens; B-Mrs P J Devine;
T-Mike de Kock; £43,080.

Margins: 1 1/4, HF, 1. Odds: 12-1, 14-1, 13-2.
Also Ran: Paco Boy (Ire), King's Apostle (Ire), African Rose (GB), Takeover Target (Aus), Equiano (Fr), Prime Defender (GB), Scenic Blast (Aus), Intrepid Jack (GB), Art Connoisseur (Ire), Ancien Regime (Ire).

A 90,000 gns graduate of the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale, Fleeting Spirit is a half sister to the stakes-placed Alone He Stands out of an unraced half sister to Group Three winner The Bean Sidhe.

This is the first Group win of the season for Invincible Spirit, and his fifth stakes winner from his 62 individual winners in Europe. The Irish National Stud sire - who hasn;t had a Group One win since Lawman took the Prix Jean Prat in 2007 - now has over £1 million in progeny earnings this year.

Pedigree of FLEETING SPIRIT, 2005