Be interesting to know factually how much Purdon and clients spent at the Melbourne yearling sales 2017
Be interesting to know factually how much Purdon and clients spent at the Melbourne yearling sales 2017
We have only had the Melbourne sale so far and I don't know who his clients are but as TC posted elsewhere, here are the results
http://www.apgold.com.au/yearling-sa...lts/melbourne/
The Males, the Strides, Five Arrows syndicate, Geoff Webster, Larry Eastman, and the Butterworths were some of the bigger spenders
http://www.hrnz.co.nz/news-and-event...line-for-jones
Mark Jones is setting up a Sydney stable
HRNSW decided to take back $15k from Mark Purdon's booty
http://www.harness.org.au/news-artic...?news_id=34046
Need to punt that one to the Stewards Report thread, Kev.
$15K is some sort of whack! Another NZ contribution to NSW Harness Racing.
Back on topic, Vincent was a $130K purchase at the 2015 Sydney Australian Gold Sale. So nobody can begrudge this "NZ" horse grabbing back a lazy $246,000 in stakes from 5 NSW starts this season. Especially so when the money goes to his Victorian owners. What goes around comes around.
If the ownership is well spread it could be some consolation but I cannot see how it can be good for other trainers for one if the following domination continues
http://www.harnesslink.com/Australia...tars-onslaught
Like my trainer said to me last week, there is nowhere to hide now, you go to a country track as far away from the city as you can get and there is a kiwi horse purchased for $200,000 waiting for you in a $3500 race, sometimes two of them. Once upon a time the hobby trainer and owner could get a win on the board against similar opposition, not any more.