Best On Breeding

Mark Smith - Thursday September 29

The stars aligned for Neil and Denise Osborne at the 2022 Inglis Classic Yearling  Sale when the couple offered a colt by Australia's hottest young sire out of a mare by one of the most successful stallions worldwide.

Consigned by the Osborne's Mane Lodge, the son of Extreme Choice set a new mark for the sale when knocked down to China Horse Club / Newgate Bloodstock / Trilogy for $825,000.

Make A Call (Extreme Choice x To Dubawi Go) $825,000 Inglis Classic Sale topper

It must have seemed a world away from the 2009 Scone Yearling Sale, where Neil Osbourne signed for a filly from the first crop of a young stallion named Dubwai (IRE), which Southern Cross Breeders consigned.

Named To Dubawi Go, the filly went into training for her new owner.

In 59 starts from two to eight, To Dubawi Go saw plenty of New South Wales. All six of her wins came on the provincial-county circuit, although six of her 14 placings came in Sydney.

Bred by Flame Tree Stud, To Dubawi Go took eleven starts to break her maiden. That was one less than it took her granddam Palmyra Bay.

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A daughter of Semipalatinsk (USA), Palmyra Bay could boast of being a three-quarter sister to AJC Oaks and VRC Turnbull Stakes heroine Just Now and Listed winner Telltina.

This revered Eureka Stud family has often featured in Best On Breeding, yet Palmyra Bay has received minimal recognition.

Which is an oversight as she was a talented racemare and a stakes-producing broodmare. Though none of her four wins came in stakes races, Palmyra Bay was runner-up in the Listed Hawkesbury Gold Cup and placed behind the headline horse Dandy Andy and El Vaquero in the Group 1 Forex Cup (Doomben Cup).

Palymrya Bay is the dam of stakes-winner  Little Pattie (Polish Patriot), stakes-placed Silver Arch (Archregent), and is granddam of the multiple GroupIII winning millionaire McClintock (King Cugat).

To Dubawi Go's dam Osprey (Flying Spur), Osprey left three winners, including the stakes-placed Nisos (Excellent Art).

The $825,000 sale-topping Extreme Choice colt named Make A Call makes his career debut in Saturday's $200,000 Group III Arrowfield Breeders' Plate at Randwick.

Trained by Peter and Paul Snowden, Make A Call is likely to go off among the outsiders after finishing third in a heat at the official 2yo barrier trials at Randwick. He was pushed along for most of the trip to clock in third behind the wayward Fameux, a daughter of Exceed and Excel and Group 1 Coolmore Classic heroine Daysee Doom.

For an inexperienced young colt, Make A Call seemed unfazed by the buffeting he received. It might not be his day on Saturday, but he looks to have a future. 

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