Nathan Tinkler’s Patinack Farm, who purchased the top lot on the first day of the Arqana sale, is to have horses in training in France.

Roger Langley, Tinkler’s manager, contacted Chantilly-based Englishman Richard Gibson at the beginning of the week asking if he would be interested in taking some yearlings.

Gibson now becomes the second of Tinkler’s trainers after Nicolas Clément was nominated earlier in the week.

Gibson could add little to this information and was unaware of how many yearlings he would receive. Understandably pleased by the choice, Gibson said, “it is a privilege to be chosen for this new owner.”

The choice of trainer for the €770,000 Galileo colt purchased on Friday has not been announced.

As for Clément, his contact with Patinack Farm began after he sold Mary d’Or, an own-sister to Gr.1 winner, now stallion, Stormy River, to Bertrand Le Metayer on behalf of Patinack Farm.

Clément commented, “Roger Langley and Bertrand Le Metayer came to see me and I have known since then that I would be receiving some yearlings. But I don’t know anything more.”
(Courtesy Jour de Galop)