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For the second time in as many days, Extreme Choice has set a new Classic Sale record.

The Extreme Choice colt who sold for $775,000 on Day 1 of Inglis Classic had a brief stint as the most expensive lot in that sale's history after Day 2 produced a youngster who sold for $50,000 more.

But Extreme Choice still owns the record with last year's Golden Slipper-winning stallion the sire of the Mane Lodge-prepared colt out of the Dubawi mare To Dubawi Go who sold for $825,000.

He was bought by Newgate Farm, which stands Extreme Choice, in partnership with China Horse Club and Trilogy Racing and Newgate's Henry Field said he was a mirror image of last year's Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside.

"We're going to name him Doppelganger," Field said. "I've never seen a horse that reminded me so much of Stay Inside.

"He's a gorgeous, athletic horse with plenty of scope and, in my opinion, the best Extreme Choice I've seen a yearling sale this year.

"He's out of a Dubawi mare, off a good farm, so he ticked a lot of boxes and we were just so pleased to get him for our big syndicate.

"He was the one horse that we really wanted to buy at this sale. The minute he walked out of his box I said, 'that's the horse we've got to buy for our group'.

"I'm really confident he'll be a runner and hopefully look forward to standing him in the stallion barn at Newgate in a couple of years' time."

Newgate's new colt assumes the record as Extreme Choice's highest-priced lot from the Day 1-topper and Field is not shocked his progeny have been popular.

The Mane Lodge colt was the fifth product of Extreme Choice through the ring and gave him an average of price $412,000.

"Extreme Choice, statistically, is the best stallion in the country," Field said.

"He had last season's Champion 2YO colt in Stay Inside in his first crop, he's got probably the best three-year-old filly in Espiona from his first crop and he's only got 40 foals on the ground every year.

"As a stallion, he is as elite as they get."