Buoyed by the overwhelming popularity of stunning first crop youngsters by exciting young sire The Factor (USA) at North American yearling sales earlier this year, his second crop of weanlings have also been in hot demand in recent days at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton November Sale and Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. Top seller for The […]
[ Read More ]The Listed VRC Symphony Stakes at Flemington on Cup Day was won in decisive fashion by talented Fastnet Rock entire Awesome Rock, a $575,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Newgate Farm draft for Spicer Thoroughbreds. A last start second to Group I winner Stratum Star in the Group III MRC David Jones Cup, the Leon […]
[ Read More ]Australia’s finest were honoured last night at the Australian Horse of the Year awards in Melbourne with Newgate Farm’s new recruit Dissident the big winner being crowned Champion Sprinter and Australian Horse of the Year. The Peter Moody trained son of Sebring won four Group I events in the season passed – the Memsie Stakes […]
[ Read More ]Newgate Farm sires are proving popular this spring with the dams of two recent Group I winners both going to Snitzel’s brilliant Group I winning son Wandjina in his first season at stud. Winner of the Group I MRC Underwood Stakes, Mourinho has won over $1.3 million in prizemoney and his breeder Fran Ovenstone will […]
[ Read More ]Newgate Farm elected to sponsor the Listed ATC Breeders Plate at Randwick on Saturday for two year-old colts and geldings and enjoyed the dream result when colts in the Newgate ownership filled the quinella. Victory went to the Peter and Paul Snowden trained Written Tycoon colt Capitalist, who started a short priced favourite and beat […]
[ Read More ]Progressive Hunter Valley breeding operation Newgate Farm is delighted to sponsor the $150,000 Listed ATC Breeders Plate (1000m) at Randwick this Saturday. The first juvenile stakes race of the season for colts and geldings, the Breeders Plate has a unique history for producing commercial stallion prospects with past winners including Baguette, Luskin Star, Choisir, Charge […]
[ Read More ]Newgate Farm’s foundation sire Foxwedge posted another impressive trial winner at Rosehill on Tuesday morning and will have his first race day runners in Brisbane this Saturday. A half-sister to brilliant mare Echo Gal, the Bjorn Baker trained filly Glamour Gal showed plenty of natural pace and a good attitude in winning her 900 metre […]
[ Read More ]When eight year-old gelding Mourinho won the Group I MRC Underwood Stakes it wasn’t just his trainer Peter Gelagotis and owners that were cheering. A Tasmanian Derby winner at three that has blossomed as an older horse, Mourinho was bought from the 2009 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale for $36,000 from the draft of Bathurst based […]
[ Read More ]Newgate Farm is delighted to announce our three first season stallions are all proving ferocious in the breeding barn early in the season. “It is always a nervous wait for the first pregnancy scans to come in for new stallions, but the news is all good,” said Director of Stallions, Bruce Slade. “Deep Field, Dissident […]
[ Read More ]Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum has been a prominent top end buyer at Australian yearling sales in the past few years and his yellow and blue colours featured in the winners list at Pakenham on Wednesday aboard lightly raced Medaglia D’oro (USA) mare Mefnooda. A $420,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the draft of Newgate […]
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