Yulong adds Devil Night, Private Harry to inaugural NSW stallion roster

Yulong’s new Segenhoe Stud base has already started to alter the Australian stallion picture, with Devil Night and Private Harry set to anchor the operation’s inaugural New South Wales roster when their racing days are done. Stallion fees were not announced, but the message was unmistakable: Yulong is buying into horses that have already delivered elite race-day credentials and can sell that story back to breeders.

Devil Night brings the kind of profile stud farms chase. The $1.4 million Magic Millions Gold Coast yearling by Extreme Choice won the 2025 Blue Diamond Stakes at just his second start, a feat that made him only the fourth horse in the race’s history to complete the juvenile Group 1 at that stage of his career. He also became the first 2-year-old since Redoute’s Choice to win the Blue Diamond in only his second outing. John Hawkes has long credited the colt’s brilliance, precocity, quality and temperament, and the race record backed up the training report. Devil Night then carried that promise into his three-year-old season, running third in the William Reid Stakes and later finishing second to Tempted in the Arrowfield 3-Year-Old Sprint.

Private Harry gives Yulong a different but equally valuable commercial package: raw speed with proven top-level appeal. The son of Harry Angel won The Galaxy in the fastest time recorded this century, missing the Rosehill Gardens track record by only 0.16 seconds, then added the Magic Millions Sunlight by defeating Golden Slipper winner Lady Of Camelot. Yulong bought 50% of the unbeaten colt in a deal understood to be worth more than AU$8 million, then later saw him spelled in the Hunter Valley before he returned to Chris Waller’s care for the spring.

The Segenhoe purchase is the bigger strategic signal. The 1,400-acre farm places Yulong squarely in the Hunter Valley, the country’s premier Thoroughbred breeding region, and chief operating officer Sam Fairgray said the move had been on the radar for about 12 months. Yulong’s breeding model has been built around backing stallions with top-class mares and placing progeny with leading trainers, and the addition of Devil Night and Private Harry shows the company is now using its own mare band and farm footprint to push that plan further. Vin Cox said Devil Night mattered because it showed different parts of the business working together, and the same logic now extends to the broader NSW roster.