The Newcastle Stable was a Thoroughbred racing partnership formed in 1903 by Life magazine publisher Andrew Miller, Blair Painter, Francis Cunningham Bishop, and trainer Thomas Welsh.
Based in New York City, in January 1907 the partners leased the 350 acre Oakwood Farm near Lexington, Kentucky to be used for breeding their own horses.
[2] The 1908 passage of the Hart–Agnew anti-betting legislation by the New York Legislature under Republican Governor Charles Evans Hughes not only led to a state-wide shutdown of racing in 1911 and 1912 but profoundly affected racetracks throughout the United States.
The market for Thoroughbreds in the United States was in decline and the stallion Adam along with fifteen broodmares were shipped to France, where the partners believed they would get a much better price.
She too was sold to another New Yorker Herman B. Duryea who moved her to Haras du Gazon, his newly acquired breeding farm in Bazoches-au-Houlme, Orne, Normandy, France[8]