Aga Khan Studs have been having an outstanding year with their homebreds and produced a new stakes-winner overnight when lightly raced Sea the Stars filly Hanalia scored a stylish victory in the Listed Naas Oaks Trial (1m2 ½ f).
Yulong aren’t the only international breeding force purchasing high profile mares from the Northern Hemisphere to race in Australia with Kia Ora Stud splashing out $US1.5million ($A2.2million)at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale last year on Bubble Rock (USA), who will take her place in the $700,000 Group I Tatts Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.