Magnificent filly She’s Extreme (Extreme Choice) scored a deserving win in today’s G1 Champagne Stakes at Randwick, rounding out an autumn campaign that delivered so much joy for her connections.
Following her first black type win in the G3 Magic Night Stakes a week before the Golden Slipper, She’s Extreme ran a luckless seventh in the world’s richest 2YO race and was then a gallant second in the G1 Inglis Sires a fortnight ago.
But today jockey Tommy Berry took her straight to the front and as hard as odds-on favourite Fireburn tried, she couldn’t get past She’s Extreme who confirmed herself one of the star – and most valuable - juveniles of her generation.
She’s Extreme is bred by Aquis Farm, who offered her as a weanling in the 2020 Inglis Digital June (Late) Online Sale.
She was then offered through the Willow Park Stud draft at last year’s Easter Yearling Sale, where her trainer Anthony Cummings purchased her for $275,000.
Cummings admitted the filly had proved challenging to train because her pedigree – which suggested she would be best served over a middle distance and beyond - didn’t match up with him wanting to run her over the shorter trips of the Golden Slipper and its lead-ups.
“I’ve always wanted to get her out to a mile and even beyond and we got that chance today and she’s showed us why we wanted that,’’ a delighted Cummings said.
“She actually hadn’t had that much work on the way through so in terms of trying to get her educated, we spoke pre-race about race craft and taking those steps on the way through, learning more on race day perhaps than she was learning at work at home because we had to keep her fresh enough to have her effective over the shorter trips.
“But since the Sires, we’ve been able to work her to her pedigree, work her to race over a mile that she was bred to do, and she just got stronger.
“The best ever she’s presented was today, she had to run her best race and that’s what she did. She excites me, she’s just that sort of horse.’’
She’s Extreme (pictured) becomes the 70th G1-winning Inglis graduate since 2018 and joins the likes of The Autumn Sun, Catchy, Estijaab, Written By, Seabrook etc as recent G1-winning 2YOs offered through an Inglis sale.
She’s Extreme also becomes the second G1 winner for her young sire Extreme Choice, alongside last year’s Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside.
A rare offering has this week become available with Extreme Choice, with a breeding right in the world’s hottest young stallion confirmed for next month’s Chairman’s Sale at Riverside on May 6.
There are also four mares in foal to Extreme Choice catalogued for the sale, with supplementary entries still open.
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She’s Extreme’s victory denied quality homebred filly Fireburn the 2YO Triple Crown, having won the first two legs (Golden Slipper and Inglis Sires) before running second today.
She’s Extreme was one of several Inglis Stakes winners today, with Je Suis Belle (Listed Ascot Quality) and Flying Crazy (Listed Daybreak Lover) both successful at Eagle Farm.
For the Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou-trained 3YO Flying Crazy (Flying Artie), it was a second Stakes success from his past three starts following a strong win in the Listed Canberra Guineas two runs back.
Bred by SF Bloodstock and Blake Sandblom, Flying Crazy is a $40,000 Classic Yearling Sale buy for Will Forrester’s WBF Thoroughbreds and Equi-Com Syndications, from the Newgate Farm draft.
He has now won almost $250,000 in prizemoney.
And for the 5YO mare Je Suis Belle (Bel Esprit), her win in the Ascot Quality was a valuable first Stakes success, adding considerable worth to her as a broodmare prospect.
Now an eight-time winner from just 17 starts, the Mark Currie-trained Je Suis Belle is an $80,000 Classic Sale buy for Ben Currie and Cameron Cooke, when offered by her breeder Gainsborough Lodge.
Je Suis Belle has won $330,000.
