There are only two yearlings by Newgate Farm’s red hot sire Extreme Choice entered for the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale and the first of them sold on Tuesday with Bowness Stud enjoying a great result with their filly from She Brings Hope, a mare they purchased for just $2,500 at the 2018 Inglis Great Southern Sale.
Sent to Extreme Choice in her first season at stud, She Brings Hope produced this lovely chestnut filly that was purchased for $220,000 by Suman Hedge Bloodstock and Mick Price, who trained her sire to win Group I races at two and three.
“We thought she was very reminiscent of the sire. Mick Price, who is going to train her, trained Extreme Choice and when we saw her we asked him what he thought and he said, ‘she’s all Extreme Choice’, so we think she’s an ideal type to get broken in and she will be nice and early,” Suman Hedge told ANZ Bloodstock News.
“The stallion is doing such a good job – his numbers are through the roof – so when we were trying to value her we just thought, ‘how would you value an I Am Invincible, a Snitzel or a Zoustar?’ because we value Extreme Choice in the same way.
“In that context, we were quite comfortable with where we were (price wise).”
She was the highest priced filly sold on Tuesday and Bowness Stud would be thrilled with the result as her dam has a colt by Menari to follow and is now in foal to the stud’s glorious grey So You Think stallion D’Argento.
It wasn’t the first time this filly was paraded around the Gold Coast sale ring as she passed in at the January sale shy of her $50,000 reserve when presented to buyers for the first time by Bowness Stud.
A few months can be a long time in racing and since January, Extreme Choice has emerged as the best 2YO sire in the country leading both the overall 2YO Sire List and the first season sire list thanks to his small but stellar first crop of runners.
From 13 runners, he has produced five winners headed by Group I ATC Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside, Group II winner Tiger of Malay and stakes-winner Xtremetime.
His well-documented fertility issues mean his progeny are in very short supply with his current crop of less than 30 yearlings proving increasingly popular as the sales season has progressed.
Extreme Time has one more offering at this sale, a colt from Wilde Irish Song to be offered by Kitchwin Hills as Lot 1630 on Wednesday morning.
