Dam of Barney Roy is in foal to Dubawi

Alina, the young mare who produced St James's Palace Stakes hero Barney Roy, was appointed a mating this season befitting her status as dam of one of the very best three-year-old colts in Europe.

The seven-year-old daughter of Galileo was covered by Dubawi – at £250,000 the most expensive stallion in the world with a published fee – after delivering a colt foal by Free Eagle on April 13.

Alina earned her chance with the Dalham Hall Stud kingpin after Barney Roy, her first foal, signalled his Group 1 potential by landing the Greenham Stakes at Newbury nine days after she had given birth.

The mare is owned by the Hong Kong-owned and Australian-based Sun Stud, a growing force on the international bloodstock scene standing 12 stallions in Victoria and Queensland - including Melbourne Gold Cup winner Fiorente, and Black Caviar's sire Bel Esprit.

The operation is best known in Europe as the owner of last year's wide-margin Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner National Defense.

David O'Callaghan, bloodstock adviser to Sun Stud, said: "Fortunately Alina is in foal to Dubawi. He's one of those stallions that if you get the opportunity to breed to them, you don't say no –and the mare deserved her chance.

"Barney Roy has looked like a Group 1 horse from day one, so it was a great thrill for everyone to see him win so well at Ascot."

Alina, who finished down the field on her two starts for Freddy Head, was bought by Eliza Park International – since rebranded as Sun Stud – for 65,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2013.

She also has a two-year-old filly by Dark Angel, who has been named Wisdom Mind and is stabled with National Defense's trainer Criquette Head-Maarek; and a yearling filly by Kodiac.

Her next foal will be bred on the same cross of Dubawi over a Galileo mare as 2,000 Guineas winner Night Of Thunder, as well as last month's Yorkshire Cup scorer Dartmouth who is set to contest the Hardwicke Stakes on Saturday.