Henderson: ‘From my point of view, he gets 10 out of 10’Successful debutant on course for Cheltenham festival
When Palladium was knocked down for €1.4m (£1.2m) at a sales ring in France last October, the underbidder was a major Australian owner with long-term dreams of the Melbourne Cup. One more bid might have seen the 2024 German Derby winner on a plane down under, to spend Christmas and the new year in the agreeable warmth of the Australian summer ahead of the spring carnival at Flemington in November.
Instead, there was a shake of the head, and so it was that on a wet, chilly January afternoon in Cambridgeshire, Palladium cantered to the start on Thursday in the maroon colours of Lady Bamford, ready to become the most expensive horse ever sent over jumps.
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