1) What is your one essential to get you through the busy sales season?
I have tried to think of something witty but you really just need stamina.
2) Which stallion's first foals are impressing you most this year?
Gutaifan and Night Of Thunder, but we have yet to get really stuck in to those by Golden Horn.
3) What horse springs to mind as your favourite purchase?
Dutch Art, 16,000gns at old Doncaster Sales. He won the G2 Norfolk S. at Royal Ascot and two Group 1s, the Prix Morny at Deauville and the Middle Park S. at Newmarket. Everyone who touched him made money and he was a charming, intelligent and genuine horse. He just got chinned in the July Cup. If there was a Commonwealth Cup in those days he would have won by half the track.
4) And finally, if you had to select one other agent to buy a horse for you, who would it be and why?
The only reason I would need another agent is if I had broken both my legs in a very serious car accident and so would therefore be unable to get out of my hospital bed. Very hard to select just one. I would go for my business partner Richard Brown or Angus Gold–two great judges.
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