We’ve been looking at all the Xtravagant’s we could this year trying to find the right horse at the right price and we’ve done it with this colt.

Why? Any stallion producing around 8% Stakes-winners to winners is moving into the elite league. Xtravagant is an athletic, well-bred and well-performed young stallion that is making a big impact in the early stages of his career.

As a racehorse he was named New Zealand’s champion 3yo and in so doing was the highest rated 3yo since Bonecrusher. It’s worth watching his destruction of the Group 1 fields in the NZ Guineas and the NRM Sprint (beating five individual Group 1 winners) both by 8 length and widening margins.

A third-season stallion with a touch over 100 runners, he’s produced over 60 winners including:

• Xtravagant Star: $1.2MIL – Listed Inglis Millennium

• Devoted: $337k - won Listed Belmont Guineas

• Lavish Girl: $451k – won Group 2 Armanasco Stakes, second in the How Now Group 2 and Hot Danish Group 2

• He’s Xceptional: $300k won Listed McKenzie

• Arts: $150k – won Group 3 Adrian Knox Stakes

• Nadal – 3rd in Group 2 Run to the Roses

Results like this have seen his service fee double from $11k to $22k and his book of mares increase from 49 mares covered in 2021 to 141 in 2022.

His progeny has been selling for up to $360k this year and have been purchased by leading judges such as Gai Waterhouse, Gerald Ryan, Gary Portelli, Bjorn Baker and Ciaron Maher.

Evidence has shown time and time again that mares that could gallop are the best producers. Another way to reduce risk is to buy from mares that have already produced good horses. We often stick to these principles, and this good-looking colt ticks both boxes – he’s out of Tiffin, a mare who performed up to Saturday metropolitan level in Sydney and has produced high quality gallopers.

Her son, Lightinthenite, was the winner of eight races and a metropolitan winner at Canterbury, Rosehill, Randwick and Caulfield winning the Group 3 Coongy and running fourth in the Group 1 Epsom.

She also produced Singular Sensation who won her first start at two by 4 lengths before dominating a Doomben Saturday field, winning by a margin of 3 lengths. Singular Sensation looked to the second star she’d produced but was unfortunately injured and we never got to see her reach her full potential, watching her first two races suggests she was destined for big things.