News - EXTREME CHOICE (AUS)
Newgate Farm’s Extreme Choice has achieved a lot in a short space of time but news that Anthony Cummings will start his star filly in the Group I VRC Oaks (2500m) has the potential to add a new string to his bow.
The stars aligned for Neil and Denise Osborne at the 2022 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale when the couple offered a colt by Australia's hottest young sire out of a mare by one of the most successful stallions worldwide.
In a race that changed dramatically in the final 100m, the Extreme Choice filly Wollombi came with a barnstorming finish to open her winning account over 1200m at Canterbury on Wednesday.
Set to stand at Newgate Farm this spring at a fee of $275,000 making him the most expensive sire in Australia, Extreme Choice closed out the season with a new stakes-winner courtesy of promising three year-old gelding Extremely Lucky capturing the Listed SAJC Lightning Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville.
Newgate Farm’s Extreme Choice stands for $275,000 this spring making him the most expensive sire in the country, so we thought it might be interesting to see what his book looked like last year when he was listed as fee on application.
Australia’s most expensive sire Extreme Choice added a new 2YO winner to his tally at Sale on Wednesday giving champion jockey Jamie Kah a winner on her only ride of the day.
The Inglis HTBA May Yearling Sale is being held today at Riverside Stables and Extreme Choice put some spark into proceedings when his only entry in the sale sold for $300,000 this morning.
Set to retire to Rosemont Stud this spring, Extreme Warrior looks like he is poised to go out on a high after resuming from a spell to win the Listed MRC Bel Esprit Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
Much was expected of Extreme Choice filly Espiona this autumn, but a combination of bad barriers and wet tracks have combined to keep her out of the winner’s circle until Saturday when she showed her true class to score a resounding win in the Group III ATC JHB Carr Stakes (1400m).
32 year-old Burst can sleep easy tonight, her status as the only ever female 2YO Triple Crown winner remains intact with hot favourite Fireburn gallant in defeat going down by a long neck to She’s Extreme in the Group I ATC Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday.
A share in the world’s hottest young stallion Extreme Choice and mares in foal on highly desirable pregnancies head the early supplementary entries for next month’s Chairman’s Sale.
Exciting filly She’s Extreme showed serious potential with a gallant second to Fireburn in the Group II ATC Sweet Embrace Stakes at her second start and she sealed the deal when powering home to win the Group III ATC Magic Night Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
An Extreme Choice colt out of a stakes-winning mare for just $5,000 – you better believe it - and Darby Racing strikes again.
Mane Lodge front man Neil Osborne first sold at an Inglis Sale at Newmarket in 1979 - Fast forward 43 years and the 70-year-old today realised an achievement - “not a dream, because it wasn’t really anything I thought would ever realistically happen’’ .
Another day at Inglis Classic and another stellar colt by Extreme Choice ups the ante to set a new record for most expensive horse ever sold at this sale and also most expensive yearling by his Newgate Farm based sire.
Never before has the Classic Yearling Sale seen a day like today.
Extreme Choice has been a hot commodity at the sales this year and he put the spark into the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale on Sunday when his colt from Murtle Turtle sold for $775,000 to James Harron Bloodstock.
A record breaking sale and high clearance made for some very happy vendors at the 2022 Magic Millions Yearling Sale and while many stallions recorded best ever stats thank to the buoyant trade, some offered better returns than others.
Ciaron Maher and David Eustace took the wraps off another highly promising debutant for Extreme Choice in Vermentino, who made a one-act affair of an 1100m maiden at Hamilton on Tuesday.
Highly regarded debutant Swerving defied a betting drift to make the best possible start to her career in an 1100m maiden at Geelong on Wednesday.