Extreme Choice

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...

by Kit Gow/Dane McLeod/TTR AusNZ The 2026 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale saw a strong enough start on day one, with eight standout yearlings reaching the coveted A$1-million mark, including a A$3-million Extreme Choice colt that topped the day. At A Glance Clearance for day one of the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale was down to 76% (79% in 2025), while the aggregate increased to A$66.08 million, ahead of 2025 (A$63 million) and 2024 (A$63.3 million). 149 horses sold this year compared to 129 in 2025. The average dropped to A$452,603...

Newgate Stud boss Henry Field has hailed Extreme Choice "a phenomenon" and raised the prospect of the superstar stallion covering more northern hemisphere mares by stating that "every major international organisation" has the statistical freak on their radar.  Extreme Choice is widely regarded as one of the best stallions in Australia - not because he punches in big numbers of winners, because he is extremely efficient at producing high-class runners from his small crops.  It is well-documented that Extreme Choice suffers from fertility issues. However, that hasn't stopped him becoming...

The Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale carried on its momentum from opening day, with another five yearlings fetching seven-figure prices. A $2 million Extreme Choice topped the leaderboard when selling to Yulong Investments, while strong clearance rates continued to rise from yesterday's figures. Five horses sold for seven figures on Day 2, bringing the sale total so far to eight, one less than this time last year. At a glance Yulong splashed out $2 million for the day's top lot, Lot 345, a full brother to G3 Vanity Stakes...

Newgate Farm's super sire Extreme Choice lit up the sales ring on Day 1 of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast, with lot 1282, a striking chestnut colt from the draft of Baramul Stud, selling to Yulong Investments for A$850,000--equalling the record for this sale, the same price as was achieved in 2019. "He's a lovely colt and I know the team love the stallion and have already had great success through the exploits of their Magic Millions purchase Devil Night," said Magic Millions' China representative...

A share in Extreme Choice brought a sale-topping bid of A$540,000 from Glenlogan Park's Steve Morley during the Inglis Digital May (Early) Sale on Wednesday. The share was offered by China Horse Club. Extreme Choice has sired five Group 1 winners to date and at a range of distances, including Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside, Blue Diamond Stakes hero Devil Night, and Melbourne Cup winner Knight's Choice. At the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale and Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale his yearlings have averaged A$579,082 and sold up to A$1.7...

Wootton Bassett has surpassed Redoute's Choice and Extreme Choice as the most expensive stallion to ever stand in Australia, after Coolmore announced on Thursday that his 2025 fee has been set at A$385,000 (inc GST). A published fee of A$330,000 (inc GST) was the previous record, first set by Redoute's Choice when he stood at Arrowfield Stud in 2007 and 2008. Earlier this year, Newgate Farm announced that Extreme Choice would match that fee in 2025, a significant increase on the A$275,000 (inc GST) he stood for in 2024. Wootton...

Haras d'Etreham boss Nicolas de Chambure said that he jumped at the opportunity to snap up a weanling foal by Australian super sire Extreme Choice (Aus) for €110,000 from JK Thoroughbreds at the Arqana February Mixed Sale on Wednesday.  De Chambure, who spent time in Australia prior to taking the reins at Haras d'Etreham, revealed that he will be playing the long game with the sale-topper who it is hoped will one day join the broodmare band at the leading French stud.  "I thought she was a filly we really...

With increasing frequency over the last decade or so, major players on the Australian bloodstock landscape have raided the November mixed sales in Kentucky, looking to fortify their ever-strengthening industry. Acquisitions by major Australian stud farms and bloodstock agents renowned and respected around the world have often made a favorable--not to mention profitable--impression on the yearling market Down Under. With the last of the 1,021 yearlings catalogued in Book 1 of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale having gone through the ring on Friday, here are a handful of...

In a little over a decade, Henry Field has built Newgate into one of the leading stallion operations in Australia and a force to be reckoned with on the international thoroughbred playing field.    Foxwedge got the stallion arm of the operation up and running in 2012 and, since then, the roster has grown exponentially, with Capitalist and Extreme Choice some of the more recent additions to the farm.    In this week's Q&A, Field explained the key principals that helped him build Newgate into what it is today, discussed...

Australasia's star sire Extreme Choice (Aus) (Not A Single Doubt {Aus}--Extremely (Aus), by Hussonet), will have his services made available to breeders in the 2023 Northern Hemisphere breeding season, Newgate Farm announced Sunday. Already the sire of a champion 2-year-old and a Classic-winning 3-year-old, Extreme Choice is currently the leading sire in the Southern Hemisphere by both stakes winners to runners and Group 1 winners to runners. He also already has three high profile sons at stud from only 30 colts to have ever raced to date. "There is no...