BLOODSTOCK agent Guy Petit made a couple of significant purchases at the 2018 Arqana Autumn Sale, headed by the €180,000 Cat Tiger. Then a Grade 3 winner over jumps, the four-year-old son of Diamond Boy was purchased for new owner David Maxwell to race from Paul Nicholls’ yard.

Before he moved, he was set to race at Auteuil just days later, and Maxwell partnered him to victory in the Grade 3 Prix Morgex Chase, winning some £60,000 in the process. After his move to England he went on to become a multiple winner over hurdles and fences and was twice placed in the Foxhunters’ at Aintree with Maxwell in the plate.