Education for life
At Silverdale, we pride ourselves on educating our horses for life. Every horse receives individualised care to manage their nutrition, health and training in a safe and secure environment.
Our top-class facilities include a 16-stall yearling barn, outdoor yards with a sustainable bark bedding, infra-red heating, undercover round yard, treadmill and walking machine, a fully manicured parade ring, quarantine and isolation facilities, a large floating area for the safe loading/unloading of horses and 24-hour surveillance. We offer expert sales preparation and presentation for the major Australian sales as well as a foal profit share program.
Graduates
Bred at Silverdale in partnership with Laurel Oak Bloodstock and Ken & Maree Lowe, the filly Fireburn (Rebel Dane x Mull Over) became her sire’s first Group 1 winner and secured the G2 Sweet Embrace S., and the G1 Golden Slipper/Sires’ Produce double along the way.
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Subterranean
From Rebel Dane’s first crop, the homebred Subterranean won the Group 3 Ken Russell Classic as a two-year-old and has also placed at Group level on two other occasions.
Pantonario
Pantonario was an excellent 2-year-old, placing third in both the G3 Gimcrack S. and the G3 Widden S. As a 3-year-old she returned to break her maiden comfortably, and has since been retired.
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Racetrack Highlights
Stay Inside
SHAREHOLDER By sire sensation Extreme Choice, Stay Inside won the 2021 G1 Golden Slipper in emphatic style. He stands his first season at Newgate Farm in 2022.
Rebel Dane
SHAREHOLDER
Bred by our good friends at Laurel Oak, the Gary Portelli-trained Rebel Dane was a five-time Group winner. Highlights from his five-year race career include the G2 The Shorts, G1 Sir Rupert Clarke S., and G1 Manikato S. He now stands at Widden Stud.
Wild Ruler
SHAREHOLDERThe tough and talented Wild Ruler retired to Newgate Farm as a Group 1 winner of the Moir Stakes as an older horse and was also a pre-Christmas 2-year-old stakes winner. He stands his first season in 2022.
State Of Rest
SHAREHOLDERInternational galloper State Of Rest is a Group 1 winner in Australia, France, UK and USA. Nicknamed ‘The Iron Horse’, he was retired in 2022 and will begin shuttling to Newgate Farm in 2023.
In The Congo
SHAREHOLDERIn a competitive class of 3-year-olds, In The Congo got his Group 1 win with a brilliant performance to defeat Anamoe in the Golden Rose, which he backed up with a solid third in the G1 The Galaxy earlier this year.
King Of Sparta
SHAREHOLDERThis tough son of I Am Invincible just keeps improving. He won the G3 Bletchingly S. at the end of his 3-year-old campaign and looks sure of more stakes success this season.
Sound
SHAREHOLDERGerman-bred Sound has been great fun under the care of Michael Moroney. Aside from his numerous placed efforts in top company, last year he completed back-to-back wins in the G2 Sandown Classic.
“At Silverdale, we pride ourselves on educating our horses for life. Every horse receives individualised care to manage their nutrition, health and training in a safe and secure environment.“
Sale Ring Highlights
Pantonario
This Not A Single Doubt x Rhodamine filly topped Silverdale’s first ever sale draft at the 2021 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, selling to Gai Waterhouse, Adrian Bott and Kestrel Thoroughbreds for $750k. She is two-time Group 3-placed.
Madeira
This homebred filly by Snitzel out of Sweet Sherry, sold to Badgers Bloodstock & Glentree Thoroughbreds for $1.35m at the 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. She was our first million-dollar yearling sale.
Snitzel x Sense Of Hite
This Snitzel colt sold to Cunningham Thoroughbreds, Clarke Bloodstock and Ciaron Maher for $850,000 at the 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.