in 1925 they expanded their interests to the breeding of arabian horses. the two women used their considerable fortune to build stables, purchase breeding stock, and establish a stud. despite its relatively late start, hanstead was soon considered "second only in importance to" crabbet arabian stud, whose founders, husband and wife team wilfrid scawen blunt and lady anne blunt, had introduced the breed to england in 1878, and from whom the yules bought and leased horses. a third stud, courthouse, was also held up to be of the same level, and the three competed against each other at the annual show at the roehampton club