Extreme Choice share headlines May (Early) Online Sale

Media Release - Friday May 9

A share in the world’s hottest young stallion Extreme Choice, two breeding rights in leading first season sire Bivouac and a half sister to G1 Golden Slipper winner Farnan headline a high quality catalogue for the Inglis Digital May (Early) Online sale.

Extreme Choice is statistically one of the best-performing stallions in the world, already the sire of five individual G1 winners from his first 115 runners.

Extreme Choice

He has also been a commercial sensation, in the last couple of years in particular, with his yearlings selling up to $1,700,000 and averaging in excess of $579,999 across the Inglis Easter and Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sales.

Extreme Choice (pictured) will stand at Newgate Farm at a service fee of $330,000 (inc GST) in 2025, the most expensive sire in the Southern Hemisphere.

Two breeding rights in Bivouac are another exciting element of the May (Early) Sale.

Bivouac is the fastest first season sire to produce two Group winners since his own sire, Exceed And Excel.

Bivouac’s second-crop yearlings have outperformed the first, averaging $350,000 at the 2025 Easter Yearling Sale.

Summer Surf (Big Brown) is a winning half sister to G2 winner and in-demand young stallion Farnan.

In his first crop Farnan is already the sire of G3 Black Opal winner King Of Pop, G3 Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes winner Recuperato and G3 Kindergarten Stakes and $1m Golden Gift winner North England

Summer Surf is being offered in foal to popular top-class sire Toronado.

In total the May (Early) Sale has 531 entries – 195 broodmares, 194 racehorses (102 race fillies), 59 racehorse shares, 51 yearlings, 27 weanlings, 4 breeding rights and 1 unbroken stock.

To view the catalogue CLICK HERE.

Other highlights include:

*Acquired – Dam of Stakes winners Splintex and Invictus Salute, from the family of Ozzmosis and Learning To Fly, offered IF to Shinzo and her yearlings have already realised up to $1.3m

*Affairoftheheart – 4YO sister to G2 winner Red Aces and half sister to G3 winner Declarationofheart

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*Alternate – Half sister to G1 winner Preferment offered as a quality 3-in-1 package, IF to King’s Gambit and with a Russian Revolution FAF

*Bullets High – Multiple Metro winner, has Stakes ability and was a winner two starts ago

*Fearless – G1 placed as a 2YO and has raced primarily in Stakes grade, still a colt with racing upside

*Glade – Zoustar half sister to a Stakes winner, offered IF to in-demand young sire Home Affairs whose yearling sold up to $3.2m in 2025

*Moons of Jupiter – American-bred mare out of a Grade 1 winner, offered IF to Alabama Express

*Nikau – From the family of four-time G1 winner Broadsiding, offered in foal to leading first season sire Ole Kirk

*Savabeel – One breeding share in the Champion NZ stallion

*Strike Swiftly – Half sister to Stakes winners Splintex and Invictus Salute, offered IF to Shinzo

*Teleplay – Multiple Stakes-winning Written Tycoon mare, offered IF to exciting young sire Cylinder.

The catalogue also features mares in foal to the likes of Admire Mars, Brazen Beau, Brutal, Castelvecchio, Hellbent, Hitotsu, In The Congo, Jacquinot, Lucky Vega, Pierro, Pride Of Dubai, Russian Revolution, Shamus Award, So You Think, Tassort, Zousain etc as well as yearlings and weanlings by the likes of Captivant, Castelvecchio, Churchill, Exceedance, Harry Angel, Pierata, Russian Revolution, Shamus Award, Street Boss, The Autumn Sun, Zousain, Capitalist, Dundeel, Home Affairs, So You Think etc.

Michael Freedman is the leading vendor with 23 entries while the catalogue has received outstanding support from the likes of Blue Gum, Rosemont, Kingstar, Arrowfield, Ballymore, Riverstone Lodge, Eureka, Coolmore, Twin Hills, Widden, Fernrigg, Mitch Freedman etc.

The final countdown of bidding for the Inglis Digital May (Early) Sale begins at 10am Wednesday.

To view the catalogue, organise credit or participate in the auction CLICK HERE.

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