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 […]

As a half-sister by Redoute’s Choice to champions Black Caviar and All Too Hard, Belle Couture has been making headlines since the day she was born and now it’s her turn to be a Mum! The five year-old daughter of Redoute’s Choice had the honour of topping the 2012 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale when […]

Star Thoroughbreds and Chris Waller combined to produce a smart winner at Warwick Farm on Wednesday with promising Sebring filly Pioneering, a $90,000 Magic Millions purchase from the draft of Newgate Farm.   The dashing chestnut was a winner on debut at Hawkesbury back in March and has been consistent since then without winning. Fit […]

Golden Slipper dreaming starts right now with the first official two year-old trial of the season at Rosehill on Tuesday morning being won by a first crop son of Newgate Farm’s foundation sire Foxwedge. Prepared by Tony McEvoy and ridden by Hugh Bowman, two year-old colt Chain Shot showed real talent when finding the line […]

JESSICA OWERS visits the burgeoning Newgate Farm in the Hunter Valley and spends some time with its young gun proprietor, who is taking head on the big boys of thoroughbred breeding. On the wide, willowy slopes of the Segenhoe Valley, Deep Field is making a lot of noise. The stretchy, nut-coloured sprinter is a stallion […]