El Dececy?

[Tom]

Did connections buy back El Dececy after winning the 2.40 at Redcar or did they let him go?

[davidjohnson]

Bought in for 7,500 gns.

[graysonscolumn]

They do like buying him back, don’t they – stumped up 23,000gns to retain him when he went in at Brighton.

gc

Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.

[Tom]

You could say "Paying to win a race".

[Irish Stamp]

You could say "Paying to win a race".

Or paying commission on the winnings

[Tom]

Is there a site that gives information of horses being sold after ‘sellers’ etc

[graysonscolumn]

Nothing bespoke, no. It’s a case of picking them out of the small print of the

Post

‘s results, either in print or online.

A wish for the "Scratchings" list to be reinstated in the

Weekender

or wheresoever else has been voiced on here a few times, but I think I’d like to see an additional list maintained for all post-selling and claiming race auction sales, friendly bids, etc. as well.

I know introducing both runs the risk of turning one corner of the given paper into something approximating a "hatched, matched and dispatched" column; but I’d regard a go-to list that can tell me in a second that horse x was claimed after race y by person z as a useful tool for horse-to-follow purposes, especially when highlighting that the claimant is one of the more gifted lead-into-gold merchants on the circuit such as Alison Thorpe.

gc

Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.

[Irish Stamp]

Thorpe and Vaughan – two trainers adept at doing very well with other peoples cast-offs

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