Filly’s chance to add value to already profitable family.
Extremely Wicked has not won a race yet, but connections' decision to pay $550,000 for her at the 2021 National Weanling Sale is already looking a shrewd one.
Developments on the Gold Coast last month made that price look cheap.
Extremely Wicked, a daughter of Zoustar and Enbihaar, is a half-sister to the filly by Too Darn Hot that Johnny McKeever paid $1 million for at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Bloodstock agent Justin Bahen and the team who race Extremely Wicked, who continues her career at Sandown this Saturday, might have had to pay close to that at a yearling sale, which backs their aggressive strategy towards the Shadwell dispersal at the 2021 National Sale.
"Being a dispersal sale, we will never get the opportunity to pop ourselves into these bloodlines again, especially with this good a racemare off the track," Bahen said at the time.
"She (Extremely Wicked) is a lovely filly. As far as confirmation goes everything about her was very smooth and we were happy to collect her.
"The mare was very good and Zoustar works well with fast mares."
Bahen's clients liked Enbihaar so much they also paid $825,000 for her at the National Broodmare Sale, a few days after snapping up the weanling filly we now know as Extremely Wicked.
A daughter of Magnus and the Strada mare Charm's Honour, Enbihaar won back-to-back races to start her career, including a Group 2 Blue Diamond Prelude (1100m), before finishing runner-up to Written By in the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m).
When sold at the National Sale, Enbihaar was in-foal with the Too Darn Hot filly who sold for $1 million, further justifying the owners' decision to invest in the family.
Enbihaar visited I Am Invincible in 2021 and last year produced a colt before returning to Yarraman Park's star resident last spring.
Those youngsters have the makings of a high-priced yearling if the owners wish to sell, especially if Extremely Wicked proves the handy type her only start to date indicates she might become.
The Matt Laurie-trained filly made her debut at The Valley on New Year's Eve, when she finished a narrow runner-up to promising Lindsay Park filly Croatian Belle.
She is being given an opportunity in Stakes grade at start No 2, to line up against leading Blue Diamond fancies Veecee, Serasana and Maribyrnong Trial winner Zulfiqar in the $200,000 Group 3 Chairman's Stakes (1000m) in which she will be ridden by Damian Lane and jump from barrier two.
