Willie Mullins has another classy French recruit to look forward to after Pierre Boulard and Harold Kirk teamed up to buy the Xavier Blanchet-trained Nippon Go (Beaumec De Houelle) for €300,000 on Arqana Online.
A winner of a French bumper by over three lengths at Lignieres En Berry earlier this month, the three-year-old will go into training with the dominant Irish Champion National Hunt trainer.
Nippon Go was the most expensive horse sold during the latest Arqana Online session.
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