STELA Star is the latest in a long list of high-class winners bred by Vimal and Gillian Khosla, but while they are accustomed to receiving seven-figure sums for stock at Goffs, this latest Group 3-winning juvenile was a relative bargain buy at €23,000.

Trained by Tom Mullins for his wife Helen, Stela Star won the Killavullen Stakes at Leopardstown and has now earned twice what she cost as a yearling. She is the first foal from the unraced Sea The Stars (Cape Cross) mare Compostela who was purchased carrying this group winner for 72,000gns in 2016. This year’s yearling filly by Kodiac (Danehill) was bought at the Arqana August Sale by Oliver St Lawrence for €75,000, while on the ground is a filly foal by Zoffany (Dansili).