Man Utd icon Sir Alex Ferguson shells out on racehorse with record-breaking price
Sir Alex Ferguson has been concerned in a record-breaking deal as £633,000 was splashed out on a prime Cheltenham Festival hopeful.
The former Manchester United boss, 82, is now co-owner of Caldwell Potter together with buddies Ged Mason, John Hales and Peter Done. The horse, educated by Gordon Elliott, is taken into account the most effective novice hurdlers after successful at Grade 1 degree in December.
And he is tipped to attain at Cheltenham in March, with the bookies pricing him as little as 8/1. Previous homeowners Andy and Gemma Brown put 29 horses up for public sale after they introduced a break from the game following current horse deaths.
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Amid a bustling public sale at Tattersalls in Ireland, bloodstock agent Anthony Bromley secured the horse for €740k – a file for a jumps horse at public public sale to outbid Elliott.
The horse will now be a part of the yard of 14-time champion soar coach Paul Nicholls, who misplaced Grade 1-winner Hermes Allen following a fall at Sandown on Saturday (February 3). Ferguson, Mason and Hales had been additionally concerned in that horse.
Bromley informed Tattersalls: “I don’t feel great about taking the horse out of Gordon Elliott’s yard. He’s done so well with this horse.
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“But this is business and you’ve got to do the best for your clients and when I saw the horse coming up for sale there was only one phone call I made and it was to John Hales.
“He’s been a consumer of mine for a lot of, a few years. I purchased him for slightly partnership they have collectively, 4 guys, John Hales, Ged Mason, Sir Alex Ferguson and Peter Done.”
Touching on Caldwell Potter’s future, Bromley added: “He would not should go and run at Cheltenham I imagine. It might be that he wants the time to settle in and go to Aintree.
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“But really we bought him to be a steeplechaser because he’s got the pedigree for a three mile Gold Cup I think. He’s such an exciting horse for the longer term.”
There was one other tragedy for the Nicholls steady on the weekend as they introduced the dying of employees member Keagan Kirkby. He died after falling whereas taking part in a point-to-point in Kent on Sunday.
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