A competitive three year-old fillies maiden at Canterbury on Wednesday was won by dashing grey Foxwedge filly A Mist Opportunity, a $440,000 Inglis Easter purchase for Astute Bloodstock from the draft of Three Bridges Thoroughbreds. Prepared by Hawkes Racing, A Mist Opportunity was well prepared at the trials and showed her experience on race day […]

The winners keep coming in the Northern Hemisphere for Newgate Farm’s Foxwedge with Peak Princess earning a lucrative Tattersalls bonus when scoring at Beverley, while King of Spades saluted at Deauville. The Richard Hannon trained Peak Princess scored over seven furlongs by two and three quarter lengths at her second start having finished second at […]

Newgate Farm’s exciting young shuttle sire The Factor added a new winner to his tally on the weekend with an easy victory for the Wesley Ward trained filly Silly Factor. Third on debut, she improved at the second time of asking to race away and win the five and a half furlong maiden at Arlington […]

Powerhouse Choisir colt Defcon had to play second fiddle to his Golden Slipper winning stablemate Capitalist during the autumn, but showed with his barnstorming win in the Group III MRC McNeil Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday that it’s now his turn to shine. Second to Godolphin colts Tessera and Astern in his first two starts […]

With new winners in both hemispheres in the past 24 hours, Newgate Farm’s Foxwedge has brought his overall tally of first crop winners to 20. An impressive runaway win at Lismore on Monday for Jadedfox as a short priced favourite was followed overnight by a three quarter length victory at Carlisle in the UK by […]

Newgate Farm’s Australian Horse of the Year Dissident is the first son of leading sire Sebring to go to stud and his first foals are finding favour at every turn, so let’s check out the latest. A precocious two year-old that won the Listed MRC Blue Diamond Preview on debut over 1000 metres, Dissident went […]

Newgate Farm have a power packed roster of young sires including Group I VRC Australian Guineas winner Wandjina, whose first foals are arriving this spring. Photographed at seven days old at Sledmere Stud is this lovely bay filly owned by RIFA Mustang, the first foal of lightly raced Fastnet Rock winner Winter Sweet, a daughter […]

Newgate Farm share in the ownership of exciting Snitzel colt Russian Revolution, who retained his unbeaten record when travelling to Melbourne to win the Group III MRC Vain Stakes at Caulfield last Saturday. Trained by Peter and Paul Snowden, Russian Revolution had won his first two starts at Canterbury and Randwick prompting punters to send […]

With two impressive winners in two days at the major summer meetings in the US, Newgate Farm’s young shuttle sire The Factor (USA) has some of the best judges in the world singing his praises. Two year-old colt Fact Finding scored at Saratoga on Saturday for the Todd Pletcher stable, while on Sunday it was […]

Newgate Farm’s exciting young shuttle sire The Factor (USA) added a fourth winner to his tally when promising colt Fact Finding produced a winning debut at Saratoga on Saturday. The Todd Pletcher trained grey tracked the leader and accelerated smartly down the running to win the six furlong maiden by two and a quarter lengths. […]