She’s Extreme (AUS)
She’s Extreme (AUS)
2 f Extreme Choice – Keysbrook by So Secret
O: Dorrington Farm, Mr A R McAnulty, Mrs L Mcanulty, Mrs M N Annetts, Robert Willis Bloodstock, Mr J G Richards, Mr M G Buys
B: Aquis Farm
T: Anthony Cummings
S: Inglis Digital June (Late) Sale 2020 V: Aquis Farm P: One Plus Investments, $32,500
S: Inglis Easter Australian Yearling Sale 2021 V: Willow Park Stud P: Anthony Cummings T’breds, $275,000
W: Magic Night Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m), Rosehill, March 12
Inglis Digital has surely been one of the most successful introductions to the Australian bloodstock market in recent years. Having launched in May 2017, the platform has gone from humble beginnings in achieving a clearance rate of 29 per cent and gross receipts of $285,000 for its inaugural catalogue offered, to grossing over $6 million in 2021’s June (Late) auction.
But it’s the corresponding June (Late) sale a year earlier that could be the opening chapter of the online auction’s most successful story to date.
While Inglis Digital saw its first Group 1-winning graduate in May 2020 through Robert Sangster Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) heroine Bella Vella (Commands), tomorrow the platform could be celebrating a Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) winner among its ranks when She’s Extreme (Extreme Choice) bids for victory in the world’s richest juvenile race.
The filly, who in winning last Saturday’s Magic Night Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) earns ANZ Bloodstock News’ Maiden of the Week status, was a $32,500 weanling purchase for One Plus Investments, before she was resold through the Willow Park draft for $275,000 at the next year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
Offered on the Inglis Digital platform by Aquis Farm, who at the time were in a period of restructuring, the filly is indicative of the opportunities that now present itself in the bimonthly auctions.
Part of the group who purchased the filly as a weanling was Coolmore’s Colm Santry, whose constant surveillance of the Inglis Digital catalogues has brought dividends.
“We’re always looking to find nice horses,” Santry told ANZ Bloodstock News. “It was myself and Michael Kerwin who purchased her as a weanling online and we onsold her at Easter and obviously Extreme Choice came up and exposed himself in a big way.
“She was such a nice foal and that’s why we bought her. Michael Kerwin saw her at Emirates Park and he rang me and said ‘we’ll buy her’ and then we found her online, and it was upwards from there.”
What transpired over the following nine months after Santry and Kerwin snapped up the bargain-priced filly on Inglis Digital, could only be described as the perfect storm for her resale as a yearling in April.
Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt) became an instant phenomenon, with Stay Inside’s Golden Slipper victory for the stallion just a fortnight before the sale fresh in the minds of Easter buyers, the Newgate Stud sire’s only offering at Australia’s preeminent yearling sale became a must-have commodity.
Combine that with the success of Ruru (So You Think), She’s Extreme’s half-sister and first foal of her Group 2-placed dam Keysbrook (So Secret) that sold for $250,000, and her appeal broadens further.
A then three-year-old Ruru had three wins to her name in Queensland by the time of the Inglis Easter sale, before running eighth in the Queensland Oaks (Gr 1, 2200m) in June.
“She was just a nice, well-bred filly. She had a So You Think filly the year before that which we really liked and it went into the Chris Waller stable, so we knew of her. She ran in the Queensland Oaks so the pedigree got a bit of an upgrade with her and Extreme Choice was going well at the time,” Santry added.
“We couldn’t have wished for a better outcome, which doesn’t happen that often … Anthony loved her. She looked like a red-hot two-year-old type, and that was it.”
She’s Extreme, who races in the colours of Dorrington Farm’s Robert Crabtree, secured her ballot-free berth in this year’s Golden Slipper with a one-and-a-half-length win over Magic Carpet (Lonhro) in last Saturday’s Magic Night Stakes to break her maiden at her third appearance, having finished runner-up in the Sweet Embrace Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) to Fireburn (Rebel Dane) the start prior.
Trainer Anthony Cummings will be targeting his first win in the Golden Slipper, with She’s Extreme his first contender since the late withdrawal of the rearing Smart Missile (Fastnet Rock) from the Slipper field at the barriers, 11 years ago.