Newgate Deep Field & Stallion Roster 2025

Yulong Investments continued their unrivalled spending spree when parting with another $1.5m to secure another of Australia's most sought after broodmares, Macroura, at the National Broodmare Sale on Thursday.

Macroura is a three-quarter sister to Group 1 Surround Stakes-winning filly Sunshine In Paris who was sold in the same Magic Millions ring on Tuesday for $3.9m and her dam, Zenaida, who will also head to Yulong's Mangalore property after being purchased for $1.4m on Wednesday.

The dual stakes-winning daughter of Snitzel was one of three mares in the sale in foal to the recently retired Deep Field whose stallion career ended due to fertility issues.

Newgate 2025 service fees

The halo effect of being one of those sons of Extreme Choice, plus the positive reception of buyers to Stay Inside’s first crop has led Newgate to lift the Golden Slipper winner’s 2025 fee to $66,000 in his fourth season.

A price rise in the season a sire has his first runners to the track is an unusual move, but Field said Newgate probably reacted too much to the stallion fee market when dropping his fee from $77,000 to $55,000 last year.

“His first yearlings have been unbelievably well sought after, and they've been beautiful stock, they  couldn't have been better animals,” he said.

“They're selling well above expectations. He's got a wonderful shareholder base in him and they're using the horse aggressively.  We are in a position where we've put his fee up from $50,000 to $60,000. We probably potentially mispriced him last year.”

Cosmic Force is the other stallion of Newgate’s 16 to have a fee rise. He jumps from $11,000 back to $16,500 (inc GST) which is what he started his career out at.

Two of Newgate’s proven stallions have had significant price drops. Both Capitalist and Russian Revolution stood at $66,000 last year, but have had their fees cut to $44,000 and $33,000 respectively.

“With Capitalist, I think we've arguably underpriced him (in 2025), but we've done it because there's such an importance out there for a horse like him,” Field said.  

“He was the eighth leading sire in Australia last year. He's always one of the leading sires by winners in the country. He's only a young stallion. We just feel like we wanted to price him so breeders could breed to a proven stallion at we think is a no-brainer fee.

“It really puts breeders in a position where they can be really profitable.”

Field acknowledged Russian Revolution’s momentum, in terms of racetrack results and sale ring results, hasn’t continued forward from the early promise as a champion first and second-season sire. He attributes this to an ‘ordinary’ book of mares in his third and fourth season.

“His fifth and sixth book of mares, these last two seasons were just phenomenal. They're a much better quality book of mares than his first and second season book of mares, and certainly much better than his third and fourth, I think there is an upswing coming there,” he said.

Among the nine stallions whose price remains the same as last year is Ozzmosis, who will serve his second crop. Field revealed the son of Zoustar will have an even higher quality book that his first season.

“He was a very important horse. We were very bullish on him. We feel, without sounding cliched, he ticks every box,” he said.

“He was a Coolmore Stud Stakes winner and an unbeaten two-year-old by a champion stallion, and a horse that would be unquestionably the most talented he's ever had. We'll be breeding more mares of our own to Ozzmosis than any other stallion on our roster this season,” he said.

Field said Newgate was very unlikely to add any new blood to its stallion ranks in 2025.

“We've been offered a couple of horses, lesser expensive horses to stand this year, but we feel  in this market, we want to focus on the blue chip stuff,” he said.

“Unless it's a horse that was to come up, that we were really, really, ultra bullish on, we're happy to have a year off from bringing any new horses in.”