Extreme Victory For Choice Colt in Moir

Extreme Choice | Racing.com

Last season's G1 Blue Diamond S. hero Extreme Choice (Aus) (Not A Single Doubt {Aus}) resumed from a spell on Friday at Moonee Valley to highlight the return of an 'extremely' fast colt, defeating some high profile rivals in the G1 Moir S. over 1000m. Beaten just once in his four juvenile starts, the Mick Price-trained colt went back from the outside barrier to settle with only favourite and recently crowned Champion Sprinter of the Year Chautauqua (Aus) (Encosta De Lago {Aus}) behind him. Finally finding the front, the Joe Pride-trained Ball Of Muscle (Aus) (Dubawi {Ire}) held a narrow lead over Buffering (Aus) (Mossman {Aus}), while Redzel (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}) and Wild Rain (Aus) (Manhatan Rain {Aus}) were ensuring the leaders didn't get too far ahead. As Wild Rain (Aus) started to come around the leaders to make her move, Buffering (Aus) began to find the pressure a little hot, while Heatherly (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}) was starting to take up the challenge. From back in the field it was Craig Newitt and Extreme Choice (Aus) who were surging at a rate of knots with their light weight to charge past the opposition and claim the second Group 1 victory for the colt. Both Heatherly and Wild Rain ran well to claim the minor honours with Chautauqua finishing well to post fourth, though he never looked likely to win. Speaking to Racing And Sports jockey Craig Newitt was fulsome in his praise for the winner saying, “I think he went to a whole new level tonight. He had the best sprinter in the world sitting on his backside and he left him behind. It doesn't happen very often.”

Racing in the China Horse Club silks, Extreme Choice would arguably be one of the most valuable colts of his age, after securing his second Group 1 win at just his fifth start. Having made a successful debut at Randwick last December Mick Price pitched him straight into pattern company on his next start two months later in the G3 Chairmans S. at Caulfield which he won at his leisure. Upped further in grade for the G1 Ladbrokes Blue Diamond S. at the same track Feb. 27 he again coped with the rise in class to maintain a perfect three from three. Sent off favourite for the G1 Golden Slipper at Rosehill Mar. 19 he failed to fire, finishing eighth behind 'TDN Rising Star' Capitalist (Aus) (Written Tycoon) but banished that memory with a dominant display on Friday. “It was about franking his stud value tonight,” summed up Mick Price who made a late call about even taking part having been done no favours with the draw. “Yesterday morning, I wasn't running from nine of nine. But I had another think, and spoke to a few people, spoke to Craig Newitt and had a look at speed maps. In the end, we thought it's a Group 1 and didn't want to take a backward step on him – he proved tonight he's a real stud colt,” Price told racing.com.

Working home extremely well to take fourth despite charting a very wide course and possibly finding the 1000m slightly short was five-time Group 1 winner Chautauqua. “I thought he was going to really pick up underneath me before the home turn and thought I had them covered, and the winner just put two lengths on me,” rider Dwayne Dunn said. “I struggled off the top bend and really didn't hit top gear until I hit the post. He's probably looking for 1200 metres.”

Pedigree notes…
Extreme Choice is a full brother to the stakes placed six-time winner in Singapore Raise No Doubt (Aus) (Not A Single Doubt {Aus}) and is the best runner so far out of the unraced mare Extremely (Aus) (Hussonet) who has a 100% strike rate with her four foals to have reached the track. His granddam Going To Extremes (Nasty And Bold) was a stakes winner of eleven races in Canada and is herself the dam of five winners. Extreme Choice is the only Group 1 winner in three generations of his family. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

Friday, Moonee Valley, Australia
CHARTER KECK CRAMER MOIR S.-G1, A$500,000 (£294,721/€342,129/US$383,083), 3yo/up, 1000mT, :58.74, gd.
1–EXTREME CHOICE (AUS), 114, c, 3, by Not a Single Doubt (Aus)
1st Dam: Extremely (Aus), by Hussonet
2nd Dam: Going to Extremes, by Nasty and Bold
3rd Dam: Ole Bob Wower, by Ole Bob Bowers
(A$100,000 Ylg '15 INGSYD). O-Newgate S F, Blake Sandblom, Aquis Farm, China Horse Club Racing Pty Ltd, Clarke Kent, Mr A Staver, Mr M J Davidson, Mr M J Ward, Mr G G B Macdonald, Mr D M Foley, Mr G D Jones, Mr A R Davis, Dr A J Bongiorno, Moonshine, Mr D A Turner, Mrs K D Greer, Mrs L J Wheeler, Mr L G Gonzy, Mr J E Turner, Mr P A Horton; B-Bell River Thoroughbreds, L Walker, B Hogno (NSW); T-Mick Price; J-Craig Newitt; A$300,000. Lifetime Record: 5-4-0-0, A$1,649,750. *Full to Raise No Doubt (Aus), SP-Sin, $311,741. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Heatherly (Aus), 125, f, 4, Lonhro (Aus)–Dancing Heather (Aus), by Danzero (Aus). (A$90,000 Ylg '14 INGEAS). O-B M & M M Grifiths; B-Standard 2080 Ltd (NSW); T-Matthew Ellerton & Simon Zahra; A$90,000.
3–Wild Rain (Aus), 125, m, 5, Manhattan Rain (Aus)–North Flower (Aus), by Rory's Jester (Aus). (A$150,000 Ylg '13 MMGCYS). O-Mrs I P Kavanagh, Mrs C L Kavanagh, Collins St Partners, Mr B N Griffith, Mr T J Storey, 1Moretime, D T T M Racing, Mr S J Hunt, Mrs A Hunt, Mr G Ma, Mrs R Ma; B-Arrowfield Pastoral Pty Ltd & Planette Thoroughbred (NSW); T-Mark Kavanagh; A$45,000.
Margins: 1 1/4, HD, 1 3/4. Odds: 4.00, 15.00, 25.00.
Also Ran: Chautauqua (Aus), Buffering (Aus), Ball of Muscle (Aus), Lucky Hussler (Aus), Redzel (Aus), Chloe In Paris (Aus).
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