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Bought for an undisclosed fee, the top miler in the United States is now on target for Royal Ascot next month for new trainer Ciaron Maher.

Yulong investments announced that they have bought Carl Spackler from US owners e Five Racing Thoroughbreds, and will head to Royal Ascot for the Queen Anne Stakes under the care of Australian trainer Ciaron Maher. He will then travel to Australia for a spring campaign down under.

Formerly in the care of Chad Brown the five-year-old son of Lope De Vega, who was named after Bill Murray's greenkeeper character from the film Caddyshack, is considered by many to be the top turf miler in the United States with three Grade One wins at Saratoga, and two at Keeneland, the latest in the Maker's Mark Mile Stakes when he came home over four lengths clear in late April.

He will become Australia's first runner in the opening race of the Royal meeting if he makes the final line-up.

"I feel very privileged and honoured to be given the opportunity to train a horse of this calibre for Mr Zhang and Yulong," Maher told Idol Horse. "Myself and the team are incredibly excited to race a genuine world-class horse and a three-time Group 1 winner on the world's biggest stage and represent Australian racing in the Queen Anne Stakes."

"We're equally as excited to have him travel to Australia after Ascot with the Cox Plate as the ultimate target, where we hope to continue Yulong's success in the race," he said.

"We've had a lot of fun with him but it is a business," Carl Spackler's original owner Bob Edwards told Daily Racing Form's David Grening. "We've had a lot of luck with him, but we're not sure how commercially he'd be received (as a stallion prospect) in the States. The timing worked out."