By Kit Gow/TTRAusNZ
Extreme Choice has done it again with a A$3-million yearling, a Group 1 winner, two Slipper lead-up winners and now a service fee to match the best in the country. Newgate Farm have pegged him at A$385,000 (€233,225) for 2026, equal to the Australian record.
“We keep thinking to ourselves how special he is, and he keeps producing it every season,” said Bruce Slade, Newgate's director of sales. “He has had another Group 1 winner this season with Apocalyptic, who has been one of the best three-year-old fillies this year, and he has had three two-year-old runners. Two of them ran in the Slipper and both won key Slipper lead-up races as well.”
G3 Canonbury Stakes scorer Hidrix and G2 Todman Stakes winner Paradoxium have flown the flag for their sire this autumn.
“Paradoxium has now been traded to Yulong for a large sum as a stallion prospect,” Slade said. “It's incredible from limited numbers, and I think his success on the track has, for the first time, really come home to roost at the sales this year. He had a record-breaking colt and filly, and his average nearly doubled from last year.
“The market may not have been convinced 12 months ago, but now all the big players have been convinced that he is a special stallion.”
Extreme Choice will cover a select book again, as he has done in recent years, and is available this autumn on Northern Hemisphere time for select mares as well. Stakes-performed Sizzlefly (Sizzling) and Group winner-producing Hazlebrook (Hinchinbrook), both offered in foal to him, have just been announced as supplementaries to the Inglis Chairman's Sale catalogue.
“That's the most exciting thing,” Slade added. “When you look at the mares in his recent books, you know at the very least we are going to see some very, very lovely horses by him come out in the next few years.”
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