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Johnny Dineen

DINEEN V NICHOLLS

Date: January 9, 2025 - Sport of Kings

CORK PUNTER and racing pundit Johnny Dineen recently expressed his opinions on social media regarding the lack of success of the Paul Nicholls string, most especially at the Cheltenham festival. The bolshy Dineen told the Racing Post’s Dave Jennings: “Nicholls is a great trainer… but his horses are rubbish. I didn’t realise he has such… Read more »

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Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

HOLIDAY CRACKERS

Date: January 9, 2025 - Sport of Kings

WILLIE MULLINS and Nicky Henderson faced off at Kempton Park on St Stephen’s Day, when the Rich Ricci-owned Lossiemouth challenged Michael Buckley’s Constitution Hill in the Grade 1 Ladbrokes Christmas Hurdle. There was much pre-race hype thanks to former Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning jockey, now racing pundit, Paddy Brennan writing off the latter nag, which duly… Read more »

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Laughing Waters

MAGNIER’S LAUGHING WATERS

Date: January 9, 2025 - High Society

WHILE THE increasing appetite of John Magnier’s Coolmore operation for agricultural land has become something of a talking point here in the last couple of years – exacerbated by the High Court row over the 750-acre Barne estate – it turns out that the moneybags is also in the selling game, at least in the… Read more »

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ALLEN KRAUSE’S MADRID MOVES

Date: January 9, 2025 - High Society

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE Mexican-English millionaire, Allen de Jesus Sanginés-Krause – the squire of Killua Castle in Co Westmeath, where he lives much of the year with his glamorous wife, Lorena – generated some interest in Spain last month, where his latest deals came under the microscope The couple are rather well known in Madrid and, back… Read more »

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Ralph Findlay

C&C’S BEWILDERING PERFORMANCE AND FIGURES

Date: January 9, 2025 - Moneybags

THE UNFORTUNATE shareholders in C&C Group have had a torrid time since the company’s shares peaked at £11 in 2007 and it was not all that surprising to see shareholder Engine Capital recently seeking to have the company offloaded. Roger White is now in situ as C&C chief executive – the fourth in four years… Read more »

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John Rocca

ROCHA FAMILY OVER THE MOON

Date: January 9, 2025 - Brief CasesBriefcases

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18) Goldhawk looks at the high-flying, high-fashion phenomenon that is London-based Simone Rocha, recently crowned British Womenswear Designer of the Year. While she has been generating substantial profits in recent years, boosted by stars such as Selena Gomez being photographed sporting her gear, in the early days a fair few… Read more »

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Eva Orsmond

DR EVA’S NEW REGIME

Date: January 9, 2025 - Brief CasesBriefcases

FANS OF health guru Dr Eva Orsmond had a nice start to the new year thanks to the Indo giving the celeb lots of space to plug her new book, The Belly Fat Solution, which looks set to raise a few eyebrows, targeting as it does hot topics such as Ozempic and also the body… Read more »

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Neil Francis

FRANNO’S SCORES

Date: January 9, 2025 - Brief CasesBriefcases

INTERESTING TO see a judgment mortgage registered against a company called KC Property Developments Ltd (KCP) by Killarney-based plant and tool hire company Allosales, following an outing in Mallow District Court. KCP is jointly owned by developer and engineer Chris Wholey and one Neil Francis, rugby-player-turned-journalist-turned-businessman. Franno was earning a tasty wedge from his various… Read more »

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Dalton Philips

DALTON PHILIPS’S LIMITED HORIZONS AT GREENCORE

Date: January 9, 2025 - Moneybags

IT MUST be surprising for those 10,000 stranded passengers who tried to fly out of Dublin Airport in May 2022 to see the Irish Times awarding Dalton Philips the “business person of the month” accolade. He has since moved on (although not too far) – just before that debacle, Philips had been confirmed as the new… Read more »

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Gina Miltiadou

ZAHRA PUBLISHING’S RED INK

Date: January 9, 2025 - Brief CasesBriefcases

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that a company called Zahra Publishing Ltd (ZPL) entered the Scarp company rescue process just before Christmas. The move comes not long after the principals experienced quite the payday courtesy of the Oirish Daily Mail group. ZPL is part of the Bray-based Zahra Media Group, originally established by South African… Read more »

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Ian Bailey

MARTIN V DPP OFFICIAL

Date: December 12, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

MICHEÁL MARTIN made law and order one of his election issues and, in a calculated move shortly before the election was called, he made a most unusual initiative when sharply criticising decisions that “blocked the murder trial” in the case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s brutal killing in 1996. In an unprecedented initiative for a… Read more »

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Cian O’Callaghan

PROFILE: CIAN O’CALLAGHAN

Date: December 12, 2024 - Pillars of Society

BEHIND EVERY great leader, there’s a deputy leader and Social Democrats head Holly Cairns was temporarily replaced by her deputy, Cian O’Callaghan, for most of the general election campaign due to her electorally untimely pregnancy. O’Callaghan is a politician of substance, like his leader, but both of them now stand on the verge of a… Read more »

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Emma Doran

YOUNG BLOOD: EMMA DORAN

Date: December 12, 2024 - The Young Bloods

Celebs with a good personal back story will always find refuge in the welcoming arms of the Irish media and this year comedian Emma Doran has certainly scored a bullseye in that regard. Her tale of getting pregnant during the school holidays and giving birth 13 days before the Leaving Cert has garnered her copious… Read more »

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Patrick Collison

COLLISON’S COLLISION

Date: December 12, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

MORE THAN 11 million people have now seen a tweet posted on X last month by Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison that included his photo of the Tel Aviv seafront under the message: “Great to be back in Tel Aviv. I missed this run.” What on earth was he up to? Not surprisingly, Collison, who boasts… Read more »

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Helen McEntee

McENTEE REVIVES LEADERSHIP DREAM

Date: December 12, 2024 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL’s election strategy selected justice minister Helen McEntee as its prime target but the Fine Gael princess focussed on a game plan inside FG during the campaign in an exercise signalling that she has not yet given up hopes of the leadership. Many party members marvel at the patronage and preference afforded to Helen… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

CONOR McGREGOR’S LOAN

Date: December 12, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH FORMER MMA superstar Conor McGregor and businessman Paddy McKillen Jr both generating headlines recently – albeit for very different reasons – it is interesting to find that the two boys were doing business together. McGregor’s own ‘brand’ has of course been seriously tarnished by the rape case verdict earlier this month, with significant pushback… Read more »

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Hermann Kelly

RIGHT-WING RECRIMINATION

Date: December 12, 2024 - Hush Hush

THE FAILURE of Ireland’s new-right parties and Independents in the general election was always likely to lead to some level of introspection and reorganisation – as well as serious recrimination. While many on the right were keen to advocate unity as a solution to their electoral frustration this, as it turned out, was wishful thinking…. Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

LINDA O’SHEA FARREN’S ‘TENACITY’

Date: December 12, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

YOU HAVE to hand it to the ultra-ambitious Linda O’Shea Farren – she keeps bouncing back. A long-time member of the National University of Ireland (NUI) senate and serial election candidate, Linda has put her name forward again for a tilt at the upcoming Seanad elections, where she will contest for one of the three… Read more »

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VOL 42 NO 24

Date: December 12, 2024 -

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John Magnier

JOHN MAGNIER’S ROOSTING BATS

Date: December 12, 2024 - High Society

JOHN MAGNIER has been attracting a lot of attention lately and, especially in Co Tipperary, the aggressive acquisition of large tracts of land by the Coolmore group and its owners is increasingly proving contentious as farmers in particular complain of being unable to compete with the zillionaire. Now his plans have potentially been scuppered, by… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

FG SISTERS IN THE FIRING LINE

Date: December 12, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

A SILENT pall hangs over a deflated and even defeated Fine Gael, which lost the ‘other’ war (apart from the one with Sinn Féin and the opposition), namely that with Fianna Fáil in the historic, even existential, contest for supremacy on the centre right. That’s the reason for the gloom. The reason for the silence… Read more »

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Lorraine Higgins

GOVT HANDLERS GO PRIVATE

Date: December 12, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

The Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo) has a pragmatic attitude to red tape when it comes to waiving the rules about certain government officials being subject to a one-year cooling-off period before entering the lucrative private sector. This is to “manage” conflicts of interest that can arise for people that have worked in sensitive… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

FENNELLY’S FIGHT

Date: December 12, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE BORING world of number crunchers sometimes throws up a good old yarn and one that has been running for nearly a decade concerns Chartered Accountants of Ireland (CAI) member Jimmy Fennelly’s attempts to get the body to admit it was wrong. The ante has been upped with the creation of a website last month…. Read more »

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Keith Woods

HIGH-END REACTIONARIES

Date: December 12, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

PROMINENT NATIONAL PARTY (NP) member Keith Woods (pseudonym of Roscommon native Keith O’Brien) likes to position himself at the more cerebral end of the new right. His assessment, however, of the NP’s poor performance in the general election is a little wide of the mark. Woods has quite a high profile internationally, having spoken at… Read more »

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Martin McGuinness

BBC SMEARS MARTIN McGUINNESS

Date: December 12, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE BBC has launched Stakeknife, a podcast series that looks at the activities of the late Freddie Scappaticci, MI5’s mole in the Provisional IRA. The first episode focused on a 1993 Cook Report (CR) documentary, which featured an incognito Scappaticci decrying Martin McGuinness in the car park of the Culloden hotel on the shores of… Read more »

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Lena Dunham

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: December 12, 2024 - The Hot Air Brigade

It’s becoming even clearer that she’s not just the female voice of a generation, but the humane voice of a century. Lena Dunham waxes lyrical about Sally Rooney, Financial Times Weekend Magazine Even Lazarus could not match the miracle Micheál Martin has pulled off. Justine McCarthy, Irish Times Moana… powerfully demonstrates how human action can… Read more »

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Jackie Cahill

TREASONOUS AN TAISCE!

Date: December 12, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

Shortly before the election, Independent TD Mattie McGrath introduced a bill in the Dáil aimed at stripping heritage charity An Taisce of its status as a “prescribed authority”. An Taisce has had this legal role since the early 1960s, meaning it is formally notified of planning applications that may have an environmental impact. This latest… Read more »

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Naomi Long

MARTIN’S NEW ALLY

Date: December 12, 2024 - Northwind

Micheál Martin spoke to the Alliance party conference in Belfast on March 1 as Tánaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs. It was part of his policy of distancing himself and Fianna Fáil from northern nationalists, but it was more than that. He endorsed Alliance’s policy of reforming the functioning of the Stormont executive in the… Read more »

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Tim Lombard

SCHULL-DUGGERY UNDERMINES FREE STATERS

Date: December 12, 2024 - Last Refuge

FOR THE second election in a row, Fine Gael has emerged with no seat in Cork South-West (CSW), a notable change of fortune in a constituency that had continuous FG representation from 1961 to 2020 and a reported party membership of 800. According to figures from Ireland Votes, a poll-aggregating website, CSW has emerged as… Read more »

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GREEN GLOBAL GLOOM

Date: December 12, 2024 - Last Refuge

‘APRÈS-NOUS, le déluge’ summed up the atmosphere at the European Greens convention last weekend in the cavernous Dublin Convention Centre. The poorly attended event was a tragedy for its hosts, the Green Party of Ireland, following successive routs in June of its two Irish MEPs and in November of all but one TD. It can… Read more »

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Jim O'Callaghan

MARTIN TO KEEP O’CALLAGHAN CLOSE?

Date: December 12, 2024 - Last Refuge

WILL MICHEÁL MARTIN honour his accord and reconciliation with former leadership challenger Jim O’Callaghan or will he welch on a deal that Fianna Fáil members believe has been struck for Jim to be made minister for justice or some other department with a similar title and brief? The near Faustian pact made by the two… Read more »

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Ed Moloney

WHATEVER YOU SAY…

Date: December 12, 2024 - Fit to Print?

THE RECENTLY released Disney+ film, Say Nothing, has resurrected the usual controversy about Gerry Adams’s alleged involvement in the killing and disappearance of widowed mother of 10 Jean McConville. One of the main promoters of this story is former Irish-based journalist Ed Moloney, a principal in the Boston College tapes exercise that produced tales about… Read more »

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Dana Erlich

DUBLIN’S KRISTALLNACHT

Date: December 12, 2024 - Fit to Print?

DUBLIN HAS become afflicted by “rising antisemitism”, according to a recent headline and article in the Irish Times. The article focused on a reported attack by three men on a Jewish man in a Dublin nightclub at 2 am. The man was wearing a small Star of David necklace and was asked if he was… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: December 12, 2024 - Bog Cuttings

HOLIDAY DISTURBANCE Listowel District Court heard the case of a 47-year-old man who was arrested for causing a disturbance at Ballybunion Golf Holiday Homes on September 4. Sergeant Stephen O’Brien told the court that gardaí responded to reports of a drunken individual on the date in question. When they arrived at the holiday homes they… Read more »

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Seán O’Keeffe

SEÁN O’KEEFFE’S PLOT SPOILER

Date: December 12, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

INTERESTING TO see that the website for the small Irish publisher established by Seán O’Keeffe, Liberties Press, is still up and running, “seeking new work from new and established authors” and also open to “unsolicited submissions”, which require an up-front payment of €922 (inc VAT). Given that the limited company that registered the business back… Read more »

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Rich Ricci

RICH RICCI’S CENTURY

Date: December 12, 2024 - Sport of Kings

FORMER BARCLAYS moneybags Rich Ricci has had a rollercoaster few weeks on racecourses in different parts of the world and achieved a significant milestone on his travels. Following Vauban’s latest flop in the Melbourne Cup last month, the nag’s minted owner sold him for €1.25m to continue his racing career Down Under. Vauban will now… Read more »

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