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Dual Group 1 winner a headline act at Chairman’s Sale.
The 2024 Inglis Chairman's Sale is more than five months away but the black-tie offering already has a confirmed red-letter lot in She's Extreme.
The dual Group 1 winner, who is a daughter of star stallion Extreme Choice, will be offered at the sale in Sydney on the night of May 9.
The Chairman's Sale has produced many outstanding results, including two $3m-pus plus this year – Nimalee and Montefilia – but Inglis Bloodstock chief executive Sebastian Hutch said four-year-old She's Extreme has the potential to top the lot.
"We have offered many top-class fillies and mares in the relatively short history of the sale, but She's Extreme will be arguably the most-talented breeding prospect that we will have ever offered through the Chairman's Sale," Hutch said.
She's Extreme, who was trained by Anthony Cummings, raced just 11 times for three wins and five minor placings.
She defeated Golden Slipper winner Fierburn to win the Group 1 Champagne Stakes (1600m) at two and last year added another Group 1 when successful in the VRC Oaks (2500m).
She was also placed at Group 1 level in the ATC Sires' (1400m), Flight Stakes (1600m) and Spring Champions Stakes (2000m).
She's Extreme, who was a $32,500 Inglis Digital weanling before selling for $275,000 at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, will be offered as part of the Newgate draft and owner Robert Crabtree will be sad to see her go.
"It is nothing short of extraordinary that she won the Sweet Embrace (Stakes) at two over six furlongs and went on to win the Classic Group 1 Champagne Stakes and then extended way beyond her natural distance to win the Group 1 Victorian Oaks at three," Crabtree said.
"She was never really an Oaks filly in our mind, but she had this amazing ability to extend herself beyond her comfort zone. She was always on top of her game and we thought she could do anything, and she did.
"It is likely that we never actually saw the very best of her, I am adamant and so is Anthony Cummings that had she not suffered the misfortune of injury, she would have built an even more distinguished race record than the one that she retired with."