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Bloodstock agent Tom Malone has purchased Midem De Berce, the runaway recent winner of a GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden Series race at Maisemore Park.

The four-year-old’s owner/trainer, Tom George, put the gelding up for sale via ThoroughBid, the online bloodstock auction, and Malone’s offer of £77,500 landed the prize when bidding closed earlier today. Midem De Berce, a French-bred son of stallion The Anvil, beat seven rivals when making a winning debut, setting off in front under Lucas Murphy (the pair pictured above) and not seeing another rival until pulling up after the winning post.

Malone said: “We had the second in that race, Kapella Grey, who was trained by Will Biddick and who I sold just before she ran. We knew she was very nice, and while the winner probably got a march on us by getting a quick start he made a lot of sense to us.

“He’s 17 hands, only four, and while he’s still a frame of a horse he’ll be very nice in time – and he’s got two nice bonuses, the GB Pointing Bonus [worth £15,000] and the Thoroughbid Bonus [worth £5,000]. He will be going to Jamie Snowden who is also now training Kapella Grey. She’s been with him for a couple of weeks and will be running again in the autumn.”

Tom Malone, who bought Midem De Berce for £77,500 en route to a place with Jamie Snowden (Ce)

Point-to-pointers bred in Britain who win a race in the GB Pointing Bonus Young Horse Maiden Series will pick up a £25,000 prize if successful in a developmental hurdle or chase within two years from a yard that is licensed in Britain. Horses bred outside of Britain are in line for a £15,000 bonus. The ThoroughBid Point2Rules Bonus pays £5,000 to four-, five- and six-year-olds who are unraced under rules and who win a bumper, hurdle or chase on their first start within a year of the auction.

Artiste D’Ainay, who won a restricted race at Charm Park last weekend for trainer Andrew Pennock, also changed hands in today’s ThoroughBid auction. The eight-year-old was sold for £10,000 to The Half Cut Horsemen.