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Outstanding Fastnet Rock mare Atlantic Jewel has returned to Australia to be served by US Triple Crown winner Justify.

The Coolmore-owned Atlantic Jewel won four G1 races in Australia for trainer Mark Kavanagh before she was retired and exported to Ireland for stud service.

She is currently in quarantine in Melbourne en route to Coolmore Australia's stud farm to be served by Justify in his first season in Australia.

"She gets back to the farm in a couple of days and she's definitely going to Justify. There's a who's who of mares going to Justify this year," said Coolmore's Tom Magnier.

Atlantic Jewel  has had two colts by Galileo from her time at Coolmore Stud in Ireland make it to the races including this year's promising Aidan O'Brien-trained juvenile Russian Emperor

Russian Emperor, her third foal, ran third at the Curragh on July 20.

"The horse at Ballydoyle is very exciting so I was delighted when I heard that Atlantic Jewel was on the way," Magnier said.

Atlantic Jewel, out of the Zabeel mare Regard, won ten of her 11 starts including her G1 wins in the Caulfield Stakes, Thousand Guineas, Memsie Stakes and

All Aged Stakes.

Justify, a son of Scat Daddy, will cover his maiden southern hemisphere season at Coolmore Australia this spring on a private six figure fee.