Lovatsville | Lovatsville Stallions Royal Meeting
Overview
INVINCIBLE SPIRIT (IRE) - ROCK OPERA (SAF)
by Lecture (USA), 2016 - Bay or Brown, 16.1 1/2hh- Royal Meeting is a Group 1 winning 2 year-old, by a Group 1 winning sprinter, our of a Group 1 winning Champion 2 year-old and the sire of a Group 1 winning 2 year-old from his first crop.
- Sire of the star 2 year-old filly, Hayasugi, who became the first horse since Sepoy in 2011 to go through the Blue Diamond series undefeated.
- 2024 yearlings sold to $280,000 etc to Te Akau Stud with other yearlings to enter the systems of Ciaron Maher, Clint McDonald, Brad Widdup, Phillip Stokes, Mike Moroney etc.
2024 Service Fee: $22,000 (incl. GST). Payment on live foal.
Pedigree
- Royal Meeting is a Group 1 winning 2 year-old by speed influence Invincible Spirit, out of a Group 1 winning Champion 2 year-old Rock Opera. Royal Meeting’s half brother is the 5-time Group winning sprinter, Heavy Metal.
- Hailing from the most active speed sire line in the world. Invincible Spirit is the sire of star sires I Am Invincible & Kingman and the grandsire of racetrack stars Imperatriz, Loving Gaby, King Colorado, Uncommon James, Zardozi, In Secret etc and emerging sires Brazen Beau, Hellbent and Home Affairs.
- Leveraging the success of I Am Invincible and his sire sons Brazen Beau & Hellbent, Royal Meeting suits a variety of mares with the breed having enjoyed considerable success with Sadler’s Wells, Storm Cat and a variety of Danehill and colonial speed influences.
Performance
- Unbeaten as a 2 year-old, Royal Meeting was the winner of the Group 1 Chantilly Criterium International in brilliant fashion.
- Royal Meeting’s star first-crop filly, Hayasugi, was the first filly to complete the Blue Diamond fillies series since Courtza in 1989.
- In addition to the first-crop Group 1 winner Hayasugi, Royal Meeting is also the sire of city-placed and fast finisher in the $1,000,000 VOBIS 2 year-old race in War Council, the promising Chris Munce trained Rushdown, James Harron colts syndicate owned Balmoral, Will Clarken’s Zelsnitz filly plus a host more exciting gallopers
- Destined for a breakout Winter & Spring due to the breed’s late maturing 2 year-old’s and developing 3 year-old’s.
News
Royal Crowned Champion
30 July 2024
ROYAL CROWNED CHAMPION
(courtesy of https://www.ttrausnz.com.au/, by Keely Mckitterick)
Lovatsville had plenty to cheer about at the TBV Victorian Breeding Awards on Saturday night with our first-season sire, Royal Meeting (Ire), awarded the Champion Victorian First Season Sire trophy, sponsored by FlyIRT.
Royal Meeting produced this season’s G1 Blue Diamond S. victress, Hayasugi, who also swept the G2 Blue Diamond Prelude (Fillies) and the G3 Blue Diamond Preview (Fillies). He is also the sire of the winners Royal Majesty, Body Of Venus, and Take A Bow.
Lovatsville principal Sam White told The Thoroughbred Report, “We’re thrilled to have Royal Meeting on the Lovatsville roster. We’re very appreciative of Aquis and Leneva Park, who created opportunities for the stallion going forward. Quite importantly, the shareholder group has supported him strongly, and the reason he’s having success is down to them.
“He covered more mares in his second and third season than in his first, which speaks for the quality of the foals on the ground, but also because he’s got those numbers behind him his future looks extremely positive.”
(Photo of Royal Meeting with his 1st season sire trophy yesterday morning. Photo taken by Lovatsville's Padraig O'Sullivan)
“Royal Meeting’s Blue Diamond winner, Hayasugi, was a $47,500 purchase. Another winner, Take A Bow, was purchased for $40,000. She won in Queensland and they think she’s a stakes horse. Then there’s Royal Majesty, trained by Chris Bieg, who was a $65,000 yearling.
“He’s also got horses like War Council, who sold for $7,000 as a weanling and then didn’t meet his $40,000 reserve as a yearling. He hasn’t won yet, but he’s been metro-placed and has over $80,000 in prizemoney.
“Royal Meeting has had more humble opportunities compared to some other high-profile stallions, but he’s capitalised on them. He's upgrading his mares, and that’s all there is to it. He’s got a good percentage of winners to runners, which puts him at the pointy end of the stallion standings, alongside the prizemoney his progeny have earned in their first season.”
The son of Invincible Spirit (Ire) is standing the 2024 season at Lovatsville, located at Seymour Park for a fee of $22,000 (inc GST) with his book filling quickly.
LOVATSVILLE STALLION PARADE WEEKEND
We are pleased to invite you to our first ever stallion parade weekend to inspect our brilliant roster of stallions for this coming season. Given it is such a busy weekend for breeders with a number of farms showcasing their rosters, Lovatsville (complementing Swettenham's location and parade times) will be providing breeders with various options to view our horses.
An RSVP is essential, so should you wish to attend please click on the link below and complete the short survey to select your preferred parade time. 
Should you not be able to attend the parades on the selected dates and would like to inspect our stallions, or to learn more about the package deals or breeding rights packages that we are offering on our stallions, including:
FIERCE IMPACT ($13,750 incl. GST)
GENERATION ($11,000 incl. GST); and
GOLD TRIP ($8,800 incl. GST)
please call or email Sam White on +61 408 123 428 or sam@lovatsville.com
