It has been four years since Yulong first played a major hand at a major broodmare sale, spending $5.3 million combined on Group 1 winners Unforgotten and Viddora on the Gold Coast and sending a signal to the likes of Coolmore and Northern Farm that they would have increased competition for Australia’s best race mares.
Since that point, Yulong has dominated the mares market, and have added 16 further Australian Group 1 winners to its formidable broodmare band, including Imperatriz, Chain Of Lightning and Mariamia for a total of $10.9 million this week on the Gold Coast.
This total does not count those Group 1 winners added from overseas sales, including subsequent Australian elite winner Via Sistina, nor the bevvy of Group and Listed winners in Australia, including $4.1 million purchase Away Game, that has bolstered its mare numbers to 700, by far the biggest in the country.
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