Ryan eyes more Rosehill success with ‘sensational' Lady Extreme
Ryan will happily take a third Saturday city win at Rosehill instead with the six-year-old mare, which has already earned almost 10 times her price and been 'sensational' for his stable.
Lady Extreme was sixth last start in the listed Ramornie Handicap (1200m) at Grafton on July 16, which came after back-to-back wins at Rosehill, the first in Midway company then another in benchmark 78 grade. Those came after four consecutive seconds at Saturday and midweek city level in her previous campaign.
With Alysha Collett aboard again, Lady Extreme returns to Rosehill on Saturday for the fourth race, a 1400m benchmark 78 for fillies and mares, after Ryan considered the open benchmark 78. Ryan hopes a likely heavy track will favour the $8 Sportsbet hope, and also scare off odds-on favourite Tuileries.
'She's won on heavy tracks and won on good tracks; she's pretty bulletproof in a lot of ways,' Ryan said. 'If there's speed in the race, she can come from back in the field. If they don't go quick, she was up running fourth, second up the other day.
'Wet tracks, dry tracks, she makes my job pretty easy by being versatile and honest.'
The daughter of Extreme Choice, Lady Extreme has won $270,000 since coming to Ryan as an unraced $27,500 online buy for FED Bloodstock's Luke Wilkinson. She originally went for $250,000 as a Magic Millions yearling.
Ryan had a first crack at black type racing with Lady Extreme in the Ramornie and was pleased with the effort.
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