News - EXTREME CHOICE (AUS)
The $1million Listed ATC Silver Eagle (1300m) at Randwick on Saturday provided a dress rehearsal for the $10million Group I ATC Golden Eagle (1500m) in two weeks time and saw an explosive return to form for last year’s G1 Flight Stakes winner Apocalyptic.
Earlier this year, Australian owner breeder Matthew Sandblom sent two Australian bred 2YO fillies by Extreme Choice to be trained in France by Francis Henri Graffard and the first to race Primetime Emmy is now a Group winner, while the second made a winning debut at Chantilly overnight.
Talented Australian bred filly Primetime Emmy was the first European winner for her sire Extreme Choice when she won on debut at Deauville in July and now she is his first stakes-winner in Europe after taking out the Group III Prix Eclipse (1200m) at Chantilly on Saturday.
Extreme Choice colt Paradoxium was one of the best 2YO colts last season showing flashes of real brilliance despite some setbacks along the way combined with bad barriers, but he put all of that behind him on Saturday with a winning return in the Group III VRC Poseidon Stakes (1100m) at Flemington.
The curtain is coming down on an amazingly successful season for Sydney based syndicators Darby Racing and their owners, who have enjoyed G1 success thanks to Caballus and the thrill of Royal Ascot with Overpass and the Darby colours today racked up a winning treble at Kembla.
Greg and Jo Griffin of Lime Country Thoroughbreds know value when they see it and took a punt on well bred three year-old Extreme Choice filly Mimi’s when she was offered at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale this year in the Newgate Consignment.
The Richard Litt stable has had a lot of success mining the online sales for untapped talent and they struck at Newcastle on Tuesday with a son of Extreme Choice snapped up through 2026 Magic Millions Digital (Jan 2-7) for just $11,000.
In April this year, Breednet ran a story about Australian owner /breeder Matthew Sandblom’s bold move to send two Aussie bred NH time Extreme Choice fillies to France to be trained and the first of them to race made a winning debut overnight at Deauville.
We might be in the depths of winter, but there was some quality on show at Rosehill on Saturday where talented Extreme Choice colt Omolong kept his record at a perfect two for two when charging home to win.
A competitive juvenile colts and geldings race over 1100m at Warwick Farm on Wednesday featured all unraced youngsters bar one and the Chris Waller stable produced the trifecta led by expensive Extreme Choice colt Omolong in the Yulong colours.
There was only one set of metropolitan trials in Sydney this week so there were plenty of late season juveniles in action on Friday at Rosehill with heat winners including unraced youngsters by I Am Invincible, Extreme Choice and that flashy grey D’Argento filly that is now two for two at the trials.
She was the only 2YO filly in the open fillies and mares 1150m maiden at Randwick on Wednesday and Celestial Charm showed her rivals a clean pair of heels with a brilliant turn of foot.
A colt by Extreme Choice topped Day Two of the 2026 Magic Millions National Sale on the Gold Coast on Tuesday helping to bring down the curtain on a successful two weeks of sales.
Four yearlings by Newgate Farm’s champion sire Extreme Choice were always billed as a standout for the MM National Yearling Sale this week and his filly from Volks Lightning sold for $580,000 on Monday and today the remaining three youngsters were all sold with the colt from Coco as in Chanel (USA) the highlight.
Fresh from siring progressive colt Berzelius to win the $1million Group II BRC Sires Produce Stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday, Newgate Farm’s Extreme Choice was always going to make his presence felt at the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale this week with the first of his four entries for this sale selling for $580,000.
The $1million Group II BRC Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday featured a full field of talented juveniles with Extreme Choice colt Berzelius putting himself in the picture for a G1 future.
Yulong have the highest regard for Extreme Choice and secured two of the three mares offered in foal to him at the Magic Millions National Sale paying $2.05 million for Miss Hellfire at the start of the day and then $1.3million for Amen Corner.
A mare in foal to Extreme Choice is a valuable commodity and particularly a well related Group II placed mare like Miss Hellfire in her first season at stud.
Kiki Express, the first of three mares to be offered at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale in foal to Extreme Choice, was sold tonight for $1.2million.
Bought with the hopes of being a stallion prospect, gelding might be the making of talented Extreme Choice three year-old Pimlico, who was an impressive winner at Randwick on Monday.