Super successful Hong Kong investor Bon Ho bough the highest priced filly at Inglis Classic on Monday with his Legend Racing paying $420,000 for a daughter of Extreme Choice.
Consigned by Lime Country Thoroughbreds, the striking bay filly is the second foal of Lady No More, a five time metro winner by Onemorenomore that traces in tail female line to dual Group I winning blue hen Lady Jakeo.
The filly will be trained by Lloyd Kennewell and was offered on behalf of Myrrh Australia and Matty Upton.
“I love the Classic Sale because a lot of good horses come out of the sale and you don’t have to pay as big a price as you do at some of the other sales, and they win all of the big races,’’ Mr Ho said.
“This filly came highly recommended to me by Lloyd Kennewell, which is why he will train her. I have one other Extreme Choice filly and I think she might be very good so I wanted another one and this one was perfect, she was the only Extreme Choice filly in the sale and I wanted her.’’
Lime Country’s Jo Griffin was blown away by the result.
“The guys who bred her did so off a $10,000 service fee so this is truly amazing,’’ Griffin said.
“She’s such a progressive filly, I’m so happy for Mr Ho. I looked at the stats and there’s only six more Extreme Choice fillies available for the rest of the season so she’s absolutely a collectors’ item.’’
Extreme Choice is leading the sire averages for the sale with all five yearlings offered so far selling at an average $323,000 with two more colts to be offered on Tuesday.