The Newgate Consignment was again the leading vendor at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale on Thursday evening selling all 16 of our offerings for an aggregate of $11,795,000.
Newgate sold three of the nine mares that sold for $1million or more with She’s Extreme topping the sale at $3.4million when bought by Tom Magnier, Autumn Ballet also selling to Tom Magnier for $1.6million and Startantes selling to Widden Stud for $1.15million.
The best filly to date by our super sire Extreme Choice, She’s Extreme was trained by Anthony Cummings, who purchased her as a yearling at Inglis Easter for $275,000 from the Willow Park draft. She was initially a pinhook success story having bred by Aquis and sold as a weanling through Inglis Digital in June 2020 for a modest $32,500.
She’s Extreme raced for a group of stable clients including Robert Crabtree of Dorrington Farm in whose colours she ran and quickly scaled the heights winning the Group I ATC Champagne Stakes (1600m) at two and then the Group I VRC Oaks (2500m) at three.
She’s Extreme had long been billed as the potential sale topper, but the final price shocked even the mare’s connections.
“That was an extraordinary result for a beautiful and extraordinary animal,’’ part owner Rob Crabtree said.
“We’re very happy. It’s a great night that Inglis has put on for the industry and it’s great to see a horse sold that way and make her money. It rarely works out anything like this.”
She’s Extreme will join the elite broodmare band at Coolmore.
“She’s Extreme is a very rare offering in that it’s not often a filly can win a Group 1 at two and train on and win an Oaks, it puts herself in very rare company,’’ said Coolmore’s Tom Moore.
“She’s by a great stallion in Extreme Choice, she had everything that we look for in these elite mares and the type of mares that we come to the Chairman’s Sale to buy.”