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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Fresh off a couple of very promising trial performances in Sydney and Melbourne on Monday for the Peter and Paul Snowden trained Volpino and the Brent Stanley trained Literate, Foxwedge gelding Vulpini blew away a smart field of juveniles at the Gold Coast on Tuesday morning. Prepared on the track by Melissa Leitch, Vulpini strode […]

The Keeneland September Yearling Sale is the biggest public auction of thoroughbred yearlings in the world and Newgate Farm’s exciting young sire The Factor (USA) more than made his mark when a colt from Aspen Light sold for $600,000 in the Book Two part of the sale. Conceived from a service fee of $15,000, the […]

Outstanding sire War Front topped the sire averages (three or more sold) during Book One of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, while his Newgate Farm based son The Factor (USA) also achieved pleasing results. In the highly competitive market of Book One, The Factor had four yearlings average $US182,500, an amazing effort for a stallion […]