COOLMORE has purchased a controlling interest in unbeaten Golden Slipper winner Vancouver, trained by Gai Waterhouse in Australia, in a deal believed to value the two-year-old at over A$40 million.

That makes Vancouver the most expensive Golden Slipper winner ever sold for stud and comes hot on the heels of Coolmore and the China Horse Club’s buy into Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum’s Australian Group 1-winning juvenile Pride Of Dubai.