Former UK star Paco Boy was represented by his first New Zealand winner on Saturday when 2YO filly Stella Di Paco won the Listed Castletown Stakes at Wanganui.

The filly is also the first winner for the new Te Akau training partnership of Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards.

Paco Boy, a hugely popular triple G1 winner in the UK and Europe during his racing career, shuttled to Waikato Stud for one season in 2011.

The son of Desert Style now boasts five stakes winners worldwide including the UK G2 winner Beacon and G3 winner Smaih.

Stella Di Paco is bred and raced by leading Sydney owner Max Whitby, who has had a long association with Waikato Stud as a part-owner of Savabeel.

Stella Di Paco is out of the winning Savabeel mare Savabeel Star, a half-sister to Hawke’s Bay Guineas winner Stardane, and is the first black type win as a broodmare sire for the WS Cox Plate winner who is leading the NZ sires’ premiership.

* PACO Boy had his sixth stakes winner in the UK on Saturday when Peacock, a colt from the Rainbow Quest mare Rainbow’s Edge, won the Listed Fairway Stakes at Newmarket.

Paco Boy stands at Highclere Stud in the UK.

• DARCI Brahma gelding Julinsky Prince won the Listed Challenge Stakes at Wanganui on Saturday to provide a most pleasing result for his trainer Fraser Auret and owner-breeder John Bromley.

The Auret-trained Thorn Prince was edged out of second place by a short head, denying the trainer and Bromley a stakes quinella

Julinsky Prince is a son of the stakes-winner and G1-placed mare Julinsky Princess and has now won four black type races with 13 of his last 14 starts in Group and Listed company.

They include a G2 win in the Japan NZ International Trophy at Tauranga in March, a third in the G1 Haunui Farm WFA Classic and fourth in the G1 Captain Cook Stakes.