The 2015 breeding season is coming to a close and for Newgate Farm it’s been a busy, but hugely productive year with a burgeoning roster of seven stallions, three of them the high profile young guns Dissident, Wandjina and Deep Field, who all covered stellar books of mares.
Securing the support of good numbers of quality mares is what gives a young stallion his best opportunity to succeed and Newgate Farm have achieved that goal in spades!
“We are very proud of the fact that each of our first season horses will cover a book in excess of 150 mares with more than 25% of the mares they have covered either stakes winners or producers,” said Newgate Farm’s Director of Stallions and Sales, Bruce Slade.
“We are very grateful to Australian and New Zealand breeders for their strong support and we are very thankful our young stallions have appealed to the market and been given every chance to make their mark through their first crops of foals.”
Reigning Australian Horse of the Year Dissident (service fee $38,500) is the first son of Sebring to go to stud and served 53 stakes winners or producers including the likes of Group I winners Bramble Rose, Barinka and Keep The Peace, along with the dams of Group 1 winners Japonsime, Southern Speed, Zipping, Dreamaway, Covertly and Amanpour.
A $1million Inglis Easter yearling and brilliant winner of the Group I VRC Australian Guineas, Wandjina ($33,000) served 41 stakes winners or producers including Group I winners Headway, Apercu, Absolut Glam, Imananabaa, Eskimo Queen and Happyanunoit, along with the dams of Buffering, Mourinho, Happy Archer, and Gingerbread Man.
A record breaking Group II winning son of Northern Meteor, Deep Field ($22,000) covered 67 stakes winners or producers including Group I winner Yosei as well as $1.1 million Group II winning purchase Villa Verde along with the dams of Cosmic Endeavour, Faint Perfume, Igugu and Il Quello Veloce.
Dissident, Wandjina and Deep Field can now enjoy a well-earned rest over the summer months and breeders can look forward to supporting them again next season with confidence.
Riding on the back of a quality first crop of foals that gain every opportunity and enter the major stables is often a passport to commercial success and breeders who choose to support them again next year will have that scenario working strongly in their favour.