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Saw this in The First Post.
A SNUB AT THE RACESAlso this week, O'Leary, who spends much of his Ryanair loot on buying racehorses, was rebuffed when he tried to buy the racehorse Simonsig for €100,000 from its Scottish owner Ronnie Bartlett. Asked if he would accept O'Leary's offer, Bartlett joked: "Do you want to put another zero on that?"
A SNUB AT THE RACESAlso this week, O'Leary, who spends much of his Ryanair loot on buying racehorses, was rebuffed when he tried to buy the racehorse Simonsig for €100,000 from its Scottish owner Ronnie Bartlett. Asked if he would accept O'Leary's offer, Bartlett joked: "Do you want to put another zero on that?"
Irish Times.
RACING: SIMONSIG LOOKED a potential star of the future when spread-eagling a field of top point-to-point winners at Fairyhouse yesterday and there was no surprise when his Scottish owner, Ronnie Bartlett, turned down a €100,000 offer for the horse from the Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary.
A “deal or no deal” arrangement to buy whatever horse won the Irish Racing Post Champion Flat Race was offered by O’Leary but once Simonsig shot 13 lengths of his opposition that was never likely to be taken up.
“Do you want to put on another zero?” inquired Bartlett, head of the Albert Bartlett potato company that sponsor a big race at the Cheltenham Festival, before politely declining the offer. Even if O’Leary had, it is doubtful if any kind of deal could have been done.
“I could double it and Ronnie wouldn’t take it,” O’Leary said. “He’d hang on to the horse anyway, which is what you want in the game.”
Bartlett’s colours were carried to a 33 to 1 festival success by Zemsky last month and Simonsig’s Co Antrim-based trainer Ian Ferguson suspects the talented grey could be crossing the Irish Sea sooner rather than later. “He may move to a bigger trainer in England but that’s it for this season. He’s still a little weak and backward and he’s for the field,” he said. “I don’t think Ronnie would ever take the money. He’ll have some fun with him.”
RACING: SIMONSIG LOOKED a potential star of the future when spread-eagling a field of top point-to-point winners at Fairyhouse yesterday and there was no surprise when his Scottish owner, Ronnie Bartlett, turned down a €100,000 offer for the horse from the Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary.
A “deal or no deal” arrangement to buy whatever horse won the Irish Racing Post Champion Flat Race was offered by O’Leary but once Simonsig shot 13 lengths of his opposition that was never likely to be taken up.
“Do you want to put on another zero?” inquired Bartlett, head of the Albert Bartlett potato company that sponsor a big race at the Cheltenham Festival, before politely declining the offer. Even if O’Leary had, it is doubtful if any kind of deal could have been done.
“I could double it and Ronnie wouldn’t take it,” O’Leary said. “He’d hang on to the horse anyway, which is what you want in the game.”
Bartlett’s colours were carried to a 33 to 1 festival success by Zemsky last month and Simonsig’s Co Antrim-based trainer Ian Ferguson suspects the talented grey could be crossing the Irish Sea sooner rather than later. “He may move to a bigger trainer in England but that’s it for this season. He’s still a little weak and backward and he’s for the field,” he said. “I don’t think Ronnie would ever take the money. He’ll have some fun with him.”
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