Mark Flannery

With one big puff of the cheeks, Mark Flannery experienced a feeling that most consignors could scarcely imagine at Tattersalls on Wednesday when his Starspangledbanner filly was knocked down to Anthony Stroud for a cool 900,000gns at one of the trickiest Craven Breeze-Up Sales in recent times.  But at around 8pm at Park Paddocks, talk shifted from the war in the Middle East, the uncertain global political landscape or even worse, what the rest of the breeze-up season might look like in Europe. That was thanks to Flannery. For the...