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Wed 09 Sep 2009In hard times good horses still make a price
BLOODSTOCK SALES GOFFS ORBY SALE TOP 20 LOTS:ONE OF the advertisements at Goffs this year features a picture of Kingsfort, the unbeaten National Stakes winner purchased privately this week by Godolphin, with the caption underneath: "A typical Goffs yearling."
Except of course he isn't typical. The very reason his picture is so prominent is because he is very much not typical. In fact, he is singular enough to have got Sheikh Mohammed scribbling a figure in his cheque book that rumour suggests was in the region of three million quid.
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