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‘I’ve been saying since day one this horse is a machine’ - meet the multiple Cheltenham Festival winner who has unearthed another potential superstar
Tom Peacock talks to Pat Flynn, the renowned trainer of Montelado and French Ballerina, about his latest sales triumph
Pat Flynn (right) with Windbeneathmywings after his winning debut at Cork in July
Once in a while Pat Flynn’s intuition takes over when looking at a horse and he becomes a man obsessed.
It happened back in 2011 when he bought Designs On Rome, the gelding who became Hong Kong’s champion and horse of the year, for the very reasonable sum of €10,500 at the Goffs Orby Sale.
Back in Kildare Paddocks a decade later, those spidey senses began to tingle again as he caught sight of Windbeneathmywings at the Autumn Yearling Sale.
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