The open juvenile event at Caulfield on Saturday looked a high class contest on paper featuring a strong representation of bluebloods and expensive yearlings with victory going to Charge Forward colt Ollivander, a $70,000 Inglis Classic purchase from the draft of Newgate Farm. Ollivander was among the last to begin under Chris Symons who took […]

Foxwedge enjoyed a winning run on Saturday with four winners in Australia and New Zealand highlighted by victories for quality mares Volpe Veloce at Ellerslie and Noire at Rosehill. A multiple Group winner at three, Volpe Veloce has firmed to outright favouritism for the Group I Sistema Railway (1200m) on New Year’s Day following her […]

Newgate Farm’s dashing grey shuttler The Factor (USA) opened his account in Australia on Friday with a stylish last to first win at Canberra for promising two year-old The Unknown Factor. Trained on the track by Gratz Vella, he was second in a barrier trial last month and was well fancied on debut in the […]

Raised and sold by Newgate Farm, well bred filly Ocean Jewel became the first stakes-winner for her Cox Plate winning sire Ocean Park when taking out the Listed WATC Placid Ark Stakes in Perth on Saturday. The Simon Miller trained three year-old won three of her first four starts and was not beaten far in […]

Denise Martin’s Star Thoroughbreds have enjoyed success at the highest level with Foxwedge mare Foxplay, but with that girl now enjoying a well-earned spell they have another daughter of the Newgate Farm sire to go on with over the summer. Prepared by Chris Waller, four year-old mare Noire gave promise of better wins to come […]

Newgate Farm shuttler The Factor added an eighth stakes-winner to his tally in the US over the weekend with promising two year-old colt A Different World taking out the $100,000 Grade III James Lewis Stakes at Laurel. Trained by John Servis, A Different World was second on debut and then an easy winner at his […]

Foxwedge has been enjoying a winning run of late with seven Southern Hemisphere winners since the start of this month and a new stakes-winner in the Northern Hemisphere on Sunday with Sadilla taking out Listed Premio Buontalenta Mem G Valiani in Italy. The three year-old filly raced clear to win the 1m2f contest by a […]

Adding to the success of Newgate Farm bred, raised and sold offspring at Flemington on Saturday was unbeaten three year-old Pierro gelding Kentucky Breeze, winner of the Listed VRC Emirates Airline Handicap over 1400 metres. A narrow winner at Stawell on debut last month, the Levi Kavanagh trained Kentucky Breeze was easy in the market […]

Royally bred Pierro filly Pinot scored a dominant victory in the $1million Group I VRC Oaks at Flemington on Thursday. Prepared by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Pinot has been aimed at the VRC Oaks since the start of this preparation and planning and patience paid dividends when the powerhouse filly forged clear at the […]

The top-priced weanling during the opening session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale was a daughter of Tapit out of Grade 1 winner My Conquestadory that sold for $775,000 to Baccari Bloodstock. “Very, very nice filly, huge pedigree,” Chris Baccari of Baccari Bloodstock said. “She looked like the kind of filly that could develop […]