Trained by Mark Newnham, five year-old Deep Field gelding Big Parade has been allowed to develop his talented in the restricted grades and blossomed to win his first stakes race at Randwick on Saturday with a  stylish victory in the Group III ATC Sydney Stakes (1200m). A last start winner at Randwick carrying 61kg, Big […]

Newgate Farm sires Extreme Choice and Capitalist delivered the quinella for co-trainers Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr in the Group III MRC Blue Sapphire Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on Wednesday. Runner-up to Fake Love in the Listed MRC Debutant Stakes and to General Beau in the Listed MRC Blue Diamond Preview last season, Extreme […]

The Australian Horse of the Year Awards on Monday evening saw outstanding Extreme Choice colt Stay Inside honoured as the Champion 2YO for 2020/2021. Trained by Richard and Michael Freedman, Stay Inside won on debut at Randwick on January 23 and  quickly progressed to stakes company winning the Group I ATC Golden Slipper at his […]

A competitive set of barrier trials for two year-olds at Randwick on Friday produced the first heat winner for Russian Revolution. Trained by Peter and Paul Snowden, who also prepared his sire to win two Group I races, Secret Revolution showed plenty of the natural talent that made his sire so successful. He worked forward […]

Stakes-placed in two of his first three starts, Extreme Choice colt Extreme Warrior always looked a good thing in a maiden race at Echuca on a Friday and he won exactly as you would have hoped to see. Trained by Mick Price and Mick Kent Jr, Extreme Warrior was last seen finishing fifth in the […]

Peter and Paul Snowden put the polish on Golden Slipper winner and now leading young sire Capitalist and they share in the ownership and also train his latest winner. Saluting at just his second start at Wyong on Thursday was three year-old gelding Ka Bling, who dashed clear at the finish to win the 1200m […]

Expensive Capitalist colt Marine One contested four stakes races in his juvenile season, so found a maiden event at Swan Hill on a Monday an easy assignment. Now with Ciaron Maher and David Eustace after starting his career with Lloyd Kennewell, Marine One appreciated the drop in grade to score a confidence boosting win. Marine […]

This Extreme Choice colt didn’t win a stakes race at Sandown on Saturday, but there is every reason to think he will do this spring as a half-brother to Group I winner Invincibella and classy stayer Secret Blaze, who won the Group III MVRC JRA Cup on Friday night. Trained by Anthony and Sam Freedman, […]

What an amazing twenty-four hours for the China Horse Club, Newgate Farm and partners, and champion stallion Snitzel with In the Congo winning the Group I ATC Golden Rose, less than 24 hours after Wild Ruler won the Group I MVRC Moir Stakes. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained In The Congo ran a top-class […]

The first Queensland two year-old race of the season was run at Toowoomba and first season sires were always predicted to play a big role and so it played out with Newgate Farm’s Menari siring promising filly Menari Magic to win the $75,000 Pat O’Shea Plate (1000m). Trained by Paul Butterworth, Menari Magic was second […]