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New owner strikes with bargain buy and admits: I don’t know anything about horse
John Gallagher: trainer of Cruel Clever Cat, winner of the 7f handicapCredit: Louise Pollard
A new owner to racing was rewarded when her bargain buy Red Armour justified favouritism to win her maiden for Newmarket-based Rebecca Dennis.
Winning trainer John Ryan said: “It’s a lovely story as Rebecca picked her up for very little money being by Nayef, an unfashionable sire to a point.”
Pocket money would be a better description of the 1,200gns that it cost Dennis to buy Red Armour at the Tattersalls yearling sales.
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