IT'S not easy taking the favourite tag into a group series. However, Leanne and Graham Hall's exciting youngster Extra Malt has done so with aplomb on her way to Saturday's Group Three Ipswich Auction Final where she's poised to give the couple the biggest win of their careers to date. Graham Hall said the couple couldn't be prouder of Paw Licking/It Gets Better bitch who they bred themselves and now only has seven other chances between her and the $40,000 crown. However, there was plenty to work on after she bombed the start only to win in the last stride in her heat and semi.