FRIDAY, 11 NOVEMBER, 2016 FASCINATING ROCK RETIRED TO BALLYLINCH BIG PLANS FOR FAST Fascinating Rock (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}--Miss Polaris {GB}, GROWING NEWGATE FARM by Polar Falcon), who won a pair of Group 1s racing as a homebred for Newtown Anner Stud and trainer Dermot Weld, has been retired to Ballylinch Stud and will stand for i10,000 next year. Ballylinch Managing Director John O'Connor said, "We are delighted that owner/breeder Maurice Regan of Newtown Anner Stud will partner with Ballylinch to develop Fascinating Rock's stud career, and both will hold a sizeable interest in him with the remaining shares being syndicated among breeders." A dual Group 3 winner at three, Fascinating Rock rose to prominence last year when besting Found (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G1 QIPCO Champion S. He had that same rival back in second when winning this year=s G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup. He won a total of seven stakes races, including six group wins. Cont. p5 Newgate Farm=s Henry Field (right) and SF Bloodstock=s Tom Ryan inspecting yearlings in Australia | Aushorse photo IN TDN AMERICA TODAY EASY FEELING TOPS KEENOV THURSDAY Easy Feeling (Elusive Quality), in foal to War Front, topped the Q&A by Kelsey Riley third day of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale when Australia=s Newgate Farm has made a big splash at Kentucky=s going for $650,000 on the bid of Barronstown Stud. Click or tap breeding stock sales this week. Newgate, in partnership with SF here to go straight to TDN America. Bloodstock, was the leading buyer through Book 1 of Keeneland November with 11 horses bought for $6.515-million, and Newgate and SF spent $1.585-million on four mares at Fasig- Tipton, with all the mares expected to go to Australia. Founded by now 33-year-old Henry Field in 2010 on a leased 250-acre property in Australia=s Hunter Valley, Newgate has exploded into one of the preeminent nurseries and stallion stations in the country. Newgate moved to a 1700-acre property in 2013 and is now perennially a leading consignor at all the country=s major sales. It=s nine-horse stallion roster includes Horse of the Year Dissident (Aus) (Sebring {Aus}) and G1 Queen Elizabeth S. victor Criterion (NZ) (Sebring {Aus}), and that list is set to expand further, with Newgate having secured the future services of four exciting 3-year-old colts, including >TDN Rising Star= and G1 Golden Slipper winner Capitalist (Aus) (Written Tycoon {Aus}). The TDN=s Kelsey Riley caught up with Field at Keeneland this week. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 9 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 11 NOVEMBER, 2016 HF: I started Newgate on a leased farm which was 250 acres. We were pinhooking foals and buying and selling horses and boarding mares. That was our business. The Bateman family, the late Dr. Bateman and his wife Belinda, in conjunction with James WITH HENRY FIELD cont. from p1 Harron, gave me the opportunity to stand Foxwedge (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), and our stallion business has grown from there. We were able to buy a very fine property in the Segenhoe KR: In just six years of existence, Newgate Farm has became an Valley and we developed Newgate into a partnership then industry leader in many aspects. You=ve become a leading between myself, SF Bloodstock and Matthew Sandblom, who consignor and breeder and also stand champions and Golden are not only business partners but close friends and mentors for Slipper winners. Can you talk about Newgate=s business plan? me. They=re very successful businessmen in their own right. It=s just developed from there. We=ve tried very hard to look after HF: Our business plan is to stand the best stallion prospects in our partners and our shareholders in our stallions with the Australia and try to develop them into champion stallions. We=re highest level of regard. It=s paid us back because we can go and very much focused on getting horses we really believe in as sire buy stallions we believe in. We=re very fortunate to have prospects. We=re very fortunate that so many of the really good wonderful partners to come into these stallions with us. breeders in the country are partners in our stallions with us. It We have four very exciting colts due to retire to stud either puts us in a position where we can really sculpt these horses= next year or the year after. Capitalist, who retired this week, will careers and get really high-quality mares to them. We breed a go down as one of the all-time top 2-year-olds, and he has a lot of our own mares and we support our horses with high-class huge 2-year-old pedigree and a massive chance to be a very mares. Our focus is to stand the highest quality stallions we important stallion. Extreme Choice (Aus) (Not A Single Doubt possibly can and manage them to the nth degree. {Aus}) was a [G1] Blue Diamond winner that won a [G1] Moir; a very fast, mature horse. Russian Revolution (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}) KR: So the stallions has always been the focus of Newgate? is a horse that we think has untapped talent. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 9 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 11 NOVEMBER, 2016 TDN Q&A Cont. KR: Has there been anything you have learned along the way He is unbeaten all bar the [G1] Coolmore [Stud S.], where he that caused you to change direction or make changes to your ran a huge race, and he=s going to be a huge force in the business plan? autumn. And it=s a privilege to have bought into Flying Artie (Aus) (Artie Schiller), who is a pure outcross and in our opinion a HF: What I=ve really learned is that you need to surround monster of a racehorse. yourself and work with really high-quality people. A length is a long way in this game, so it=s really about the one-percenters. It=s a real cliche, but this game comes down to the one- percenters, because the margin for error is so small. AYou need to surround yourself Operationally, in and work with really high-quality decision making you people. A length is a long way in really have to get all this game, so it=s really about the the small things one-percenters.@ right. That=s probably why we=ve grown the business so successfully. We=ve always tried to employ a really good person, 12 months before we really require them, so we=re ahead of the growth rather than trying to play catch up. Future Newgate stallion Flying Artie KR: You=ve talked about your partners, and China Horse Club is Darren Tindale another one you=ve been doing a lot of business with. KR: Those four future stallions are all very smart sprinters, and HF: China Horse Club has been a really great partner to us. Mr. this is of course what the Australian Thoroughbred is best Teo Ah Khing, Michael Wallace, Mick Flanagan; it=s a great known for. Is standing sprinters at stud an important focus for working relationship. We work on a lot of deals together and you? we=ve really had a lot of success with them. I=m not sure if we=ve been lucky or they=ve been lucky for us, but it=s probably a HF: There are certain things we believe in to make stallions and I combination. Cont. p4 don=t really care whether we retire a horse to stud that stands for A$10,000 or A$100,000; we have to have things that are important to us and we believe in. In Australia, natural speed is a very important thing. So it=s not that we=re focusing on that, it=s just an ingredient that seems to have worked that is a tried and true ingredient for making a champion stallion in Australia. We work really hard to not only manage the stallions when they go to stud, but recruit them. It all comes down to the owners of these colts trusting what we do. A lot of times the people that race these colts will co-own them with us when they go to stud, and that=s built some great friendships and some great relationships. For example, Alan Bell and Ananda Krishnan, who raced Deep Field, are two of the people we co-own the stallion with, but they have actually developed into people I=ve become very close to and I=ve learned so much from them. I=m a young guy and we=re building a business. We learn all the time, so to be able to learn off good people that have integrity and intelligence is a real honour and privilege for me. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 11 NOVEMBER, 2016 TDN Q&A Cont. KR: You have reverse-shuttled your foundation sire, Foxwedge, We=ve got some crack horses in training and a really nice and you=re also the Southern Hemisphere home of The Factor bloodstock portfolio which we share in to a degree. We co-own (War Front). Can you envisage reverse-shuttling any of your some mares together and some racehorses. They have a great other sires? broodmare portfolio of their own and we have a great broodmare portfolio of our own. HF: I think Australian horses are getting huge amounts of credit.