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'Each time I came back to see him, I sort of liked him a bit more'
Kildaragh Stud's Peter Kavanagh on being the first buyer of Native Trail
Dewhurst winner Native Trail was bought by Peter Kavanagh as a foalCredit: Edward Whitaker
Native Trail's physical substance has been remarked upon as Godolphin's colt developed into this season's champion two-year-old elect.
It was an aspect that the man who found him first, Kildaragh Stud's Peter Kavanagh, noticed when he was only ten months old, taking a chance in buying the unbeaten Dewhurst and National Stakes winner for €50,000 at Arqana's December Breeding Stock Sale.
"We buy foals to pinhook as yearlings and we’re always on the lookout for fillies and mares," recalls Kavanagh.
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