MAYBE it was again a case of when Homer nods, but this is another tale of a horse going to the sales, failing to find a buyer, and ending up enjoying success.

Bred by Eoin Banville at Arctic Tack Stud, The Model Kingdom stretched her unbeaten record to three when she won the Grade 3 Weatherbys General Stud Book Irish EBF Mares Flat Race, adding to bumper wins at Galway and Navan last year. At the Co Meath venue she captured the Listed Coolmore EBF Mares INH Flat Race, and it would be interesting to know what she would be worth now.