Momentum behind Mulcaster
No buyer had a stronger second half of the day than the Guy Mulcaster-Chris Waller axis, and they ended the session by snaring a well-bred son of Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt) from The Chase at $1.2m.
The colt is the third foal out of Dame Giselle, a four-time Group 2 winner and Group 1 place-getter by I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit). In turn, the dam is out of the similarly Group 2-winning and Group 1-placed Ballet Society (Stravinsky).
This means the dam is a half-sister to The Fairy’s Kiss (Elusive Quality), who has in turn bred Ulanova (Santos), who was promoted to first in the Group 1 Sistema Stakes.
“We were pretty happy with that colt, he looks sharp and comes from a beautiful family,” said Mulcaster. “We looked at him two days ago with Chris and he said ‘They all run out of that family’, so that was good enough for me. I thought we’d be hard enough to beat and we didn’t let on too much about what we were up to, so we probably got him at the right odds. He looks like a beautiful horse so let’s hope he’s back here next year.”
On the subject of Newgate Farm’s subfertile sire sensation Extreme Choice, Mulcaster said: “He doesn’t get many in foal and the less there are, the harder they are to buy. We’re pretty happy to have got him and we’ve got one with one of the best pedigrees, so fingers crossed.”
He added with a wry smile: “We started off really slow but we’ve sort of got the hang of it in the last hour and a half and we’ve got three days to go, so it should be good!”
Mulcaster and Waller signed for five lots that cost a combined $2.47m, while a daughter of Waller’s former stable star Home Affairs (I Am Invincible) was purchased with the Champagne Fillies at $200,000.