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'I looked at her pedigree and didn't have much interest' - the Honeysuckle story
Aisling Crowe talks to the superstar mare's buyer Peter Molony
"There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"
William Shakespeare had battles over the destiny of Rome and the state of Elizabethan England in mind when he conjured these words for Brutus to voice in Julius Caesar. When Peter Molony took the fateful decision to inspect a Sulamani four-year-old filly at the Goffs Punchestown Sale of 2018, he encountered a high tide that has led to unimagined shores.
It is a swell that has carried Kenny Alexander, Henry de Bromhead, Rachael Blackmore and a public starved of hope and heroes, along with Molony and his family, on a wondrous voyage. Like so many of the best stories, it very nearly didn't happen.
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