Written by Jessica Owers
Inglis has released its first round of supplementary entries for next month’s Chairman’s Sale and, alongside a number of significantly commercial broodmares, Newgate Farm is offering a breeding right in its reigning Champion First Season Sire, Extreme Choice.
The share will be offered in a catalogue that has already ballooned to 93 entries from last year’s 66, and supplementary entries are invited right up to Friday, April 22.
Extreme Choice | Standing at Newgate
“By every metric, Extreme Choice is the best young stallion in the Southern Hemisphere,” said Newgate studmaster Henry Field. “To have had four Group 1 performers already, including a Golden Slipper winner, from such a small number of horses to race is really quite extraordinary.”
Extreme Choice’s first crop of foals, which numbered just 48 in 2018, returned remarkable results, propelling the stallion into his first Champion Sire title.
Along with G1 Golden Slipper winnerz Stay Inside, who will join his sire at Newgate this spring, Extreme Choice has had seven stakes winners overall, including dual Group-winner Tiger Of Malay, who also heads to Newgate this season, and Group 3 winner Extreme Warrior.
Gallery: Some of Extreme Choice's stakes winners
His second crop has turned out the G3 Magic Night S. winner She’s Extreme, who was also second to Fireburn (Rebel Dane) in the recent G1 Sires’ Produce S.
By the figures, Extreme Choice is running at a very hot 18.4 per cent stakes winners to runners, and his yearling results this year, off a foal crop numbering just 31, have been remarkable.
By the figures, Extreme Choice is running at a very hot 18.4 per cent stakes winners to runners, and his yearling results this year, off a foal crop numbering just 31, have been remarkable.
At the Inglis Classic Sale in February, two of his colts topped the Sale at $825,000 and $775,000 respectively, while at the Magic Millions 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale last November, his colt from the Fastnet Rock mare Arnault took top billing at $350,000.
Choices abound
The Inglis Chairman's Sale, which will kick off at 4.30pm AEST on Friday, May 6, at this point features three mares in foal to Extreme Choice.
Lot 69 is the Medaglia D’Oro (USA) mare Shadow, Lot 74 is the Bradbury’s Luck mare Skate To Paris, while Lot 85 is Triple Chelsea (USA) (Hat Trick {Jpn}), an imported American stakes winner in the Newgate Consignment.
Additionally, the supplementary entries include the Nicconi broodmare Helix Park, who comes from the same family as the high-achieving Annavisto (NZ) (Reliable Man {GB}). Helix Park is also in foal to Extreme Choice.
“There have been some fantastic additions to the catalogue already, and we are very fortunate to offer breeders great opportunities to be part of the extraordinary Extreme Choice success story,” said Harry Bailey, Inglis’ senior bloodstock consultant.
“We’re thrilled with how the Chairman’s catalogue has come together, and with just over a week remaining for supplementary entries to be accepted, now is the time for participants with elite race fillies and broodmares to get in touch, and to be part of what is a special evening of auction theatre.”
“There have been some fantastic additions to the catalogue already, and we are very fortunate to offer breeders great opportunities to be part of the extraordinary Extreme Choice success story.” - Harry Bailey
As it stands, the catalogue boasts 53 fillies or mares with black-type performance behind them, while 24 mares are advertised as Danehill (USA) free.
Some of the high-class options include the Not A Single Doubt mare Shout The Bar, who is a dual Group 1 winner on top of her G2 Sunline S. victory this year, plus the G1 Coolmore Classic winner Daysee Doom (Domesday).
Daysee Doom | Image courtesy of Sportpix
Lot 76 is Solar Cry (Street Cry {Ire}), the half-sister to both Sunlight (Zoustar) and Sisstar (Zoustar).
To date, 74 of the 93-strong catalogue (excluding supplementary entries) are in foal to stallions of the likes of Snitzel, I Am Invincible, Written Tycoon and Zoustar, among others.
“Our focus, when putting the catalogue together, is to consider carefully what the market wants, so there is tremendous variety across the book, with 85 of the mares entered aged 9 or under,” said Sebastian Hutch, Inglis Bloodstock's CEO.
“Despite the pandemic-imposed restrictions last year, the Sale was without doubt the most enjoyable auction spectacle of the year, and we are looking forward to the 2022 renewal being even more fun and more entertaining.”
