Newgrange

Newgrange started out his career with two straight wins, his second coming via a 2 ¼-length front-running score in the Sham Stakes on New Year’s Day 2022 at Santa Anita Park. The Sham was a qualifying points race for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve, but the Violence colt did not earn points for the Derby due to Churchill Downs’ banning any horses conditioned by his trainer, Bob Baffert. 

Newgrange added another graded stakes win to his credentials with a win in the Grade 3 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park on Jan. 29. 

In his next race, Newgrange faded late in the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes and finished sixth as the 4-5 favorite, effectively ending his run on the road to the 2022 Kentucky Derby.

He returned from an extended layoff in the Shared Belief Stakes in September 2022 at Del Mar and finished a well-beaten third. Newgrange got back on track in an allowance-optional claiming race Nov. 6 at del Mar and picked up a confidence-building 5 1/2 -length win. He closed out his 3-year-old campaign with a third against older horses in the Grade 3 Native Diver Stakes three weeks later at Del Mar.

Newgrange made his 4-year-old debut in the Grade 2 San Pasqual Stakes Jan. 28, 2023, at Santa Anita Park, where he pressed the pace and battled gamely to post a one-length win. He then ran four more times at age 4, finishing third in the Grade 3 Native Diver Stakes in November and then closing out his season with a bookend graded stakes score on Dec. 26, which came in the Grade 2 San Antonio Stakes at Santa Anita.

Newgrange returned as a 5-year-old in 2024 and picked up right where he left off at the end of 2023 with a stakes victory in the Grade 2 $200,000 San Pasqual Stakes at Santa Anita, taking care of business to score wire-to-wire by a length and winning that race for the second straight year.

Newgrange is out of the unraced Empire Maker mare Bella Chianti. His second dam (maternal grandmother) is Grade 2 winner Bella Chiarra.