The prospects are among the 13 foals produced here in 2008 by mares imported from America after being mated at Ramsey Farm in Kentucky to southern hemisphere time with Kitten's Joy, a racehorse so talented he beat older performers for the honour of being America's turf champion at three in 2004.

Through his career, he contested 14 races for nine wins (seven stakes, two Group 1's), four seconds (including the Breeders' Cup Turf and Arlington Million) and earnings of $2million.

He is by one of America's best influences for good grass track performers of recent years, the fleet-footed Sadler's Wells product El Prado, the sire in the same crop, 2001 foals, of Artie Schiller, a shuttler to the Mike Becker conducted Independent Stallions stud at Nagambie in Victoria.

A world class turf course performer whose ten wins from 22 outings in America included the Group 1 Breeders' Cup Mile and four Group 2s, one at New York's Belmont Park by 5.3 lengths and in new track record time, Artie Schiller had his foals in both countries in 2008 and has yearlings booked into 2010 Australian sales.

Kitten's Joy, on the other hand, has his first American crop race at two in 2009 and has got off to a big start, supplying 16 individual winners, including five successful in stakes races through to the end of November. He is the most successful sire of stakes winners among all the juvenile sires and has had his fee bumped from $20,000 to $40,000.

The 13 mares who have produced the Kitten's Joy Australian foals, current yearlings, are nicely credentialed breeders who could have a big future here. They include mares got in America by shuttled sires More Than Ready, Dehere, Street Cry,Thunder Gulch, Royal Academy, Honor and Glory, Langfuhr and Mr. Greeley.

A young stud emerging as a Hunter Valley power base who could get big benefit out of the American mare invasion is Stuart Ramsey's Turangga complex at the entrance to the Segenhoe Valley near Scone.They have eight of the mares and their Kitten's Joy foals, including three which are to be available at the Magic Millions yearling sale at the Gold Coast in January and one listed for the Sydney Classic sale.

The Classic youngster is a colt from the Street Cry American winner Venassas Jig, while heading to the Gold Coast are colts from More Than Sum (More Than Ready winner) and De Ice (a Dehere winner of four sprints) and a filly out of Wildly Entertained (a relation through sire and dam to Hennessy).

Although Turangga is only a fairly new player in the yearling market in the ownership of Stuart Ramsey, it is established as a big, top source of quality performers. One of their 2008 draft was the Charge Forward filly Headway, a winner of the VRC Ascot Vale Stakes and AJC Sweet Embrace Stakes and second in the Golden Slipper.

A brother to Headway is one of the 22 yearlings Turangga is taking to the Gold Coast. In addition to this youngster and the three by Kitten's Joy, the draft includes progeny of More Than Ready, Flying Spur, General Nediym, Rock of Gibraltar, Commands, Not a Single Doubt, Snitzel, Snippetson, Fastnet Rock and Don Eduardo.