After two sessions at the 2026 Magic Millions, Extreme Choice is leading the sire averages with seven yearlings selling at an average $840,000.
Yulong have already hit the jackpot with an expensive Extreme Choice colt, purchasing Group I MRC Blue Diamond winner Devil Night at Magic Millions in 2024 for $1.4million and they upped the ante on Wednesday.
Consigned by Kingstar Farm, the full brother to Group winning filly Wollombi attracted spirited bidding after starting off at a lowly $300,000.
The fifth foal of minor winning Hinchinbrook mare Hazlebrook was kept busy walking the ring as various parties became involved before Yulong landed the winning bid at $2million.
The price set a new benchmark for Extreme Choice.
“He’s a very special colt, he was our only target that we definitely needed to buy,” said Yulong General Manager. Jun Zhang.
“We can see some stallion potential with him and also we own the sister as well, so we try and create our own families so that is another reason why we had to get him.
“Extreme Choice is a very successful stallion and could be a history (making) stallion in the future, so this is why Mr Zhang is trying to get every Extreme Choice he can.”
Kingstar Farm sold a colt by Extreme Choice’s young sire son Tiger of Malay at this sale last year for just $75,000 to astute trader Shane McGrath, who then re-offered the colt at the Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale where he made $325,000 to the bid of BT / Pierre Ng / Campton Racing.
Hazlebrook missed in 2024, so had no foal last year and is now back in foal to Extreme Choice.
Newgate also had a great result on Wednesday selling an Extreme Choice filly from Tasmanian Group winner Deroche for $850,000 to David Ellis of Te Akau Racing.
“This is a filly that I put (wrote) in my book as a Golden Slipper filly – ‘just buy her’,” Ellis said.
“I don’t do that very often. I thought she was a ready made two-year-old and she had the scope to go on as nice three and four-year-old.
“I probably paid an extra $100,000 to what I thought she’d make but with the good ones you’ve just got to buy them.”
By leading Tasmanian sire Needs Further, a son of champion sire Encosta de Lago, Deroche was bought by Newgate for $260,000 at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale in 2022.
She produced another colt by Extreme Choice last spring and was then covered by him again.
Extreme Choice has three more yearlings to be offered.
