Moon returns to Newmarket

Purple Moon, the most expensive horse ever bought to go racing over hurdles, is to leave Nicky Richards and will join Luca Cumani in Newmarket.

Moon returns to Newmarket
Sun, 08 Apr, 2007 - 11:49

Purple Moon, the most expensive horse ever bought to go racing over hurdles, is to leave Nicky Richards and will join Luca Cumani in Newmarket.

The four-year-old was bought by Craig Bennett for a record 440,000gns at Newmarket’s Tattersalls Sales in October after being in the care of Sir Michael Stoute.

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