Age
3yr
Sex
Filly
Colour
Bay
Sire
Turn Me Loose (NZ)
Dam
Yearn (NZ)
Turn Me Loose x Yearn 2023
Turn Me Loose x Yearn 2023 (barn name Mulan) is a bay 2YO filly by triple Group 1-winning miler Turn Me Loose out of Group 2 Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes winner Yearn, by Champion Sire Savabeel. Foaled on 17 August 2023, she represents a deliberate cross of proven Australian miler speed with the durable, black-type form of a New Zealand staying mare. Her immediate family combines precocity with resilience: Turn Me Loose won Group 1 races between 1400 metres and 1600 metres, while Yearn was a stakes-performed miler who banked $339,895 in prizemoney. In early education at Copper Belt Lodge, Mulan has shown the alertness and the balanced action that fit the typical early-2YO campaign of her pedigree, without asking for more than she is ready to give.
About Turn Me Loose x Yearn 2023
By Turn Me Loose, a three-time Group 1 winner in New Zealand and Australia (2014 NZ 2000 Guineas, 2015 VRC Emirates Stakes, 2016 MRC Futurity Stakes), out of Yearn, a Group 2 Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes winner by Champion Sire Savabeel. Mulan's pedigree profile fits an early 2YO speed campaign through the late spring and summer, with the scope to stretch to mile-graded company as a 3YO filly. The target pathway is a 2YO introduction over sprint–miler distances, then progression into the autumn 3YO fillies' events.