Bruce Slade

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...

The five-year-old broodmare Sedaka (NZ), offered in foal to Too Darn Hot (GB) on a Southern Hemisphere cover, has been sold for a record 210,000gns to Bruce Slade of Kestrel Thoroughbreds, on behalf of Nocab Racing. The top-priced lot in the Tattersalls Online December Sale, she also becomes the highest-priced broodmare ever sold on the platform. The daughter of Savabeel (Aus), who was twice Group-placed as a three-year-old, was consigned by Watership Down Stud and is set to stay in Britain in the short term, with a return visit to...