MANDY Pope owns Whisper Hill Farm in the USA and is one of breeding’s and racing’s biggest investors and participants. In 2014, she spent $3,900,000 at the Keeneland November Sale for the Group 3 winner Aloof, a daughter of Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) and Airwave (Air Express).

Regally-bred, and a solid performer at Group 3 level, Aloof was trained by David Wachman to win three times, notably in the latter part of her second season when she was successful in a Lanwades Stud-sponsored Group 3 at Gowran Park. She raced again at four, notching up a career total of 20 starts, but failed to win again. The filly she was carrying at the time of her sale, Flora Sandes (War Front), recouped $900,000 for Pope and won a single race. She died at the age of six.