“When you’re hot, you’re hot” is an old show business adage meaning that success builds on success. It also applies to the world of Thoroughbred breeding, and right now, it applies to the family of the one-time “half-bred” Lavant. Responsible for Grande Prêmio Diana (BRZ-G1) winner Perfect Plastic in November of last year (“Mares on Monday: Lavant’s Family Proves Fully Thoroughbred in Brazil,” November 17, 2025) and Grande Premio Presidente Antonio Grisi Filho (BRZ-G3) winner Shallow Now just a week later (“Mares on Monday: Lightning Strikes Twice for Lavant,” November 24, 2025), Lavant’s family completed a Group-winning hat trick on January 6, 2026, when Brazilian-bred Native Extreme fought his way to a head victory in Uruguay’s biggest race, the Gran Premio José Pedro Ramírez (URU-G1) at Montevideo’s Hipódromo Nacional de Maroñas. The son of the Unbridled’s Song horse Emcee picked up his first top-level win after previously gaining a listed stakes win in 2025 at Maroñas.
Like Perfect Plastic and Shallow Now, Native Extreme descends from the Locris mare On Pass Pas, a Brazilian-bred great-granddaughter of Lavant. Their pedigrees diverge at the next step. Up until now, On Pass Pas’s Group 3-placed daughter Femme Fatale (by Clackson) has gained more recent notice, her branch of the family including Perfect Plastic and Shallow Now as well as 2005 Grande Prêmio Henrique Possolo (BRZ-G1) winner Movie Star and multiple Brazilian Group 2 winner Simply the Best.
Native Extreme brings the spotlight to another daughter of On Pass Pas, Access. A full sister to Femme Fatale, Access was the better racer, winning the 1995 Grande Prêmio Thomaz Teixeira de Assumpção Junior (BRZ-G3) and placing in another Group 3 event. She was also a successful broodmare, producing 2007 Grande Premio Henrique Possolo winner Que Fuerza (by five-time Brazilian champion sire Wild Event, by Wild Again) and 2004 Grande Premio Associacao de Criadores e Proprietarios de Cavalos de Corrida do Rio de Janeiro (BRZ-G3) winner Nikinipó (by the Forty Niner horse Jules, a champion sire in Brazil).
Although Que Fuerza did not quite succeed in reproducing her own class, she still did fairly well as a broodmare, producing 2020 Premio Asamblea de La Florida (URU-G3) winner Hechicero (by multiple graded stakes winner Adriano, by A.P. Indy)) and Amor Gitano (by Northern Afleet), a multiple listed stakes winner in Brazil and Uruguay. She is also the dam of three stakes-placed daughters including Extreme Justice (by Adriano), who produced Native Extreme as her third foal. Now deceased, Extreme Justice has one foal yet to race in Paddington Station, a 2023 colt by 2020/21 Brazilian champion older male Pimper’s Paradise.
How long the Lavant family’s hot streak will continue is anyone’s guess, but the Group 1 wins of Perfect Plastic and Native Extreme will certainly help in securing better matings for broodmares from this clan, including Extreme Justice’s half sisters. Breeders, like everyone else, look for success where success has already been found, and the descendants of Lavant through On Pass Pas have certainly found plenty in recent months.
Like Perfect Plastic and Shallow Now, Native Extreme descends from the Locris mare On Pass Pas, a Brazilian-bred great-granddaughter of Lavant. Their pedigrees diverge at the next step. Up until now, On Pass Pas’s Group 3-placed daughter Femme Fatale (by Clackson) has gained more recent notice, her branch of the family including Perfect Plastic and Shallow Now as well as 2005 Grande Prêmio Henrique Possolo (BRZ-G1) winner Movie Star and multiple Brazilian Group 2 winner Simply the Best.
Native Extreme brings the spotlight to another daughter of On Pass Pas, Access. A full sister to Femme Fatale, Access was the better racer, winning the 1995 Grande Prêmio Thomaz Teixeira de Assumpção Junior (BRZ-G3) and placing in another Group 3 event. She was also a successful broodmare, producing 2007 Grande Premio Henrique Possolo winner Que Fuerza (by five-time Brazilian champion sire Wild Event, by Wild Again) and 2004 Grande Premio Associacao de Criadores e Proprietarios de Cavalos de Corrida do Rio de Janeiro (BRZ-G3) winner Nikinipó (by the Forty Niner horse Jules, a champion sire in Brazil).
Although Que Fuerza did not quite succeed in reproducing her own class, she still did fairly well as a broodmare, producing 2020 Premio Asamblea de La Florida (URU-G3) winner Hechicero (by multiple graded stakes winner Adriano, by A.P. Indy)) and Amor Gitano (by Northern Afleet), a multiple listed stakes winner in Brazil and Uruguay. She is also the dam of three stakes-placed daughters including Extreme Justice (by Adriano), who produced Native Extreme as her third foal. Now deceased, Extreme Justice has one foal yet to race in Paddington Station, a 2023 colt by 2020/21 Brazilian champion older male Pimper’s Paradise.
How long the Lavant family’s hot streak will continue is anyone’s guess, but the Group 1 wins of Perfect Plastic and Native Extreme will certainly help in securing better matings for broodmares from this clan, including Extreme Justice’s half sisters. Breeders, like everyone else, look for success where success has already been found, and the descendants of Lavant through On Pass Pas have certainly found plenty in recent months.
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