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Hello You and Go Bears Go heading to Del Mar.

Rockfel Stakes winner Hello You  will be joined by Railway Stakes hero Go Bears Go  at next week's Breeders' Cup when Dave Loughnane's breakthrough season hits a new highpoint.

The two-year-olds will become the 34-year-old's first runners in the US at the end of a campaign in which the trainer has enjoyed his first successes at Group Two level, five years after he moved to Helshaw Grange in Shropshire.

Hello You, who landed the Rockfel on her third start for Loughnane, will contest the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies' Turf at Del Mar, while Go Bears Go, who since his Curragh victory has finished third and fourth at Group One level, runs in the Juvenile Sprint.

"I'm really looking forward to it," said Loughnane. "It's everything we have worked towards. We have said from the start we wanted to compete at the top level and it's great to get these opportunities.

"It's been a breakthrough season for us. We've been able to compete at an increasingly higher level. That's what we planned when we drew up this model six years ago when we started and the progression has been quicker than we imagined.

"Now we are competing at this level, we want to remain there as long as possible. It's all about longevity now."

Loughnane has trained 33 winners in 2021 and banked more than £500,000 in prize-money, the stable's most lucrative campaign yet.

"You can train horses from anywhere if you have the right staff, you know what you're doing and you have the right facilities," he said. "I don't think it matters what part of the world you are in."

He continued: "Hello You was very impressive in the Rockfel. She seems to have come out of the race extremely well. I would imagine she would be one of the top three in the betting for the Juvenile Fillies, and rightly so.

"She has a lot to cope with with regards to the travel but if she takes all of that well, I would expect her to run a very big race.

"I have more question marks with Go Bears Go. He's had a long season and we are dropping back to five furlongs. It is going to be a very quick five, but the owners Amo Racing were quite keen to take a crack and we said we'd roll the dice one more time and then put him away."