Juvenile Group 1s Dominated by Newgate Farm

Bred by Senga Bissett and Ivan Woodford-Smith and offered through their Ashleigh Thoroughbreds draft at the 2020 Gold Coast Yearling Sale, Saturday’s Gr1 Champagne Stakes hero Captivant (Capitalist) sold to China Horse Club, Newgate Bloodstock and Starlight Racing for $550,000. The rapidly emerging powerhouse buying group subsequently also brought in partners Horse Ventures, Go Bloodstock Australia, Glenlogan Park, Highgrove Stud, Nick Vass, Aston Bloodstock, Grant Bloodstock, Carpe Diem and G1G Racing and Breeding to race the now Group 1 star. Captivant’s dam Speedboat is a three-quarter sister to group winning sprinter First Command, half-sister to multiple stakes winner Cross Current as well as the dam of New Zealand Derby winner Crown Prosecutor and Magic Night Stakes winner Willow Creek. Magic Millions-sold graduates have now won three of the four Group 1 races for two-year-olds run in Australia in 2021 - the other was captured by Godolphin's homebred Anamoe (Street Boss). Artorius (Flying Artie) and Stay Inside (Extreme Choice) won the Blue Diamond Stakes and Golden Slipper respectively and, like Captivant, are by first season sires standing at Newgate Farm.