{"id":454093,"date":"2026-05-31T13:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/454093\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:14:16","slug":"hong-kong-or-caulfield-cup-for-derby-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/454093\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong or Caulfield Cup for Derby Hero ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newgate Farm proprietor Henry Field celebrated his first Derby success when emerging Easter colt Providence (Wootton Bassett) scored a decisive victory in today\u2019s G1 Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm.<\/p>\n

A maiden heading into this preparation, the Chris Waller-trained Providence has come of age over the past few months.<\/p>\n

\"Providence<\/p>\n

He put the writing on the wall with an eye-catching 3rd in the traditional Derby lead-up – the G3 Rough Habit Plate \u2013 a fortnight ago and never looked like losing today, thanks to a perfect ride by James McDonald.<\/p>\n

Bred by Jonathan Munz\u2019s GSA Bloodstock, Providence was offered through the Bhima Thoroughbreds draft at the 2024 Easter Yearling Sale, where he was purchased by the China Horse Club, Newgate Farm, Go Bloodstock and Trilogy Racing partnership for $625,000.<\/p>\n

Munz, through bloodstock agent Dean Hawthorne, purchased the subsequently G1 Thousand Guineas placed Southbank, the dam of Providence, as a yearling also at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.<\/p>\n

Providence is the 119th individual G1-winning Inglis graduate since 2018 and in time could join the likes of Extreme Choice, Wild Ruler, Cosmic Force, Russian Revolution, Profiteer and In The Congo as Inglis graduates on the Newgate stallion roster.<\/p>\n

\"Providence<\/p>\n

Providence\u2019s immediate future will likely be decided in the next week \u2013 Field revealed there had been significant pre and post-race interest from Hong Kong buyers while Waller would like to target the G1 Caulfield Cup in the spring.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll sit down and talk to Chris over the next few days, he thinks he would make a really nice Caulfield Cup horse but with the Hong Kong interest there as well, we\u2019re running a commercial colts partnership at the end of the day and we\u2019ve got to keep the economics of that working so there\u2019s every chance he could get sold to Hong Kong but it\u2019s too early to say,\u2019\u2019 Field said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever happens, it\u2019s a huge thrill to win a Derby and a great race for the partnership to win, it\u2019s our first Derby success and it was great to have that success in the China Horse Club colours.<\/p>\n

\u201cProvidence was a beautiful yearling at Easter, real quality with lovely size and scope. To be honest we thought he was our Caulfield Guineas horse when we bought him but you can\u2019t complain when you\u2019re winning Derbies, we\u2019re really chuffed.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Bhima\u2019s Mike Fleming added: \u201cHe was really well received at Easter, Wootton Bassett was popular that year especially so they had to pay for him but they\u2019ve got themselves another Group 1 winner which is great.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s another big result for Jonathan, who puts so much into the game and it\u2019s nice to sell another Group 1 winner to Henry and the partners.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Henry bought the horse as a Guineas prospect more than a Derby prospect but given the mare had won over a trip it\u2019s no real surprise to see Providence getting over some ground too.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newgate Farm proprietor Henry Field celebrated his first Derby success when emerging Easter colt Providence (Wootton Bassett) scored…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-454093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}